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Ending Tobacco Subsidies: Policy Brief

Jayna Kothari Contributors: Varsha Iyengar, Apoorva Sharma, Suha Mohamed, Namit Bafna

Ending Tobacco Subsidies: Policy Brief The Need for Repeal of the Tobacco Board Act 1975 for Effective Tobacco Control - Centre for Law & Policy Research - 24p

Content:
Summary of Recommendations
Current Law and Policies on
Tobacco
COTPA
The Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control
The Tobacco Board Act, 1975
Subsidies and Incentives given by the
Tobacco Board
A Legal basis for Ending tobacco
Subsidies
A Constitutional basis for phasing out
Subsidies: Violation of Fundamental
Rights and Directive Principles under the
Constitution
Violation of the FCTC
COTPA: Later Law would Prevail
Examples of Other Jurisdictions
phasing out Tobacco Subsidies
Recommendations

--Tobacco Board Act 1975, Tobacco Control Law and Policy

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