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Nagaland minister seeks support to enforce ban on tobacco

Dimapur, June 10 (UNI) Nagaland health and family welfare minister P Paiwang Konyak called for a collective and coordinated approach to support the one-year ban on tobacco imposed across the state.
On June 4, the state government imposed a one-year statewide ban on the manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of all food products containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients, citing public health concerns and directions from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
At a high-level review meeting of the department in Kohima on Tuesday, the minister emphasised the need for a collective and coordinated approach toward public health, calling upon civil society organisations, churches, and community leaders to extend their wholehearted support to the one-year ban on tobacco.
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