"Smokeless Tobacco in India" Published
As of June 2013 Karnataka, along with another 26 states and five union territories implemented a ban on the sale, manufacture, storage and distribution of gutkha and paan masala. These states included Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Karnataka is the last state so far to ban Asian-style chewing tobacco.
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