Impose heavy tax on tobacco products

CHENNAI: Pasumai Thayagam, a non-governmental organisation, conducted an awareness campaign against tobacco consumption to mark ‘No Tobacco Day’, here on Tuesday.Citing the WHO report that one in two persons using tobacco die of cancer, paralysis, lung infection and several other diseases, it suggested ways to prevent its use. Listing out the features of “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control”(FCTC) , the campaigners stated that the State Government should implement the convention in the State. Advertisments indirectly promoting tobacco and tobacco products should be banned, they  insisted. Imposing heavy taxes on tobacco products will reduce its consumption and also increase the revenue for the government, they added.