Summary of this article The new tax is expected to affect more than 100 million smokers in India ITC fell up to 14 per cent, while Godfrey Phillips declined as much as 21 per cent Cigarette costs are likely to increase by Rs 2.05-Rs 5.40 per stick ITC, Godfrey Phillips Share Price: Shares of tobacco companies continued to fall on January 2, 2026, after the government announced a new tax on cigarettes, which will come into effect from February 1, 2026
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(3 pages) Article by Roy Norr Christian Herald October 1952 (Source: Googlebooks) In 1975, more than a decade after the publication of the US Surgeon Generals Report on the devastating health consequences of cigarette smoking, George Gitlitz, MD, a vascular surgeon and past president of the Broome County, New York Medical Society, wrote the first of over a dozen letters to the editor and the publisher of The New York Times challenging them to discuss on the newspapers editorial page their reasons for continuing to accept cigarette advertising and to acknowledge the irony of repeated editorial accusations of financial self-interest by doctors while profiting from the promotion of the major preventable cause of disease and avoidable medical costs
4 (UPI) -- Smoking cigarettes may result in significant genetic damage, a collaborative research team concluded in a recent study
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