Overall agri-business revenues during the year grew 38% driven by soya and rice exports and leaf tobacco. Cigarettes remain the key contributor to profits. Revenue from ITC s hotels business during the year under review was impressive, with segment revenues growing by 26% to touch Rs 986 crore because of better room rates, improved occupancies and food & beverage sales. One of the reasons for the dip is also a higher proportion of agri-products in the topline. Cigarette sales volume grew...

There are still 45 million cigarette smokers and another 9.7 million users of other tobacco products. Tobacco is implicated in 440,000 deaths annually and health costs to treat tobacco related diseases are pegged at $89 billion annually. Bonnie, who is the chair of the IOM committee responsible for this report said there was no debate on the fact that tobacco was harmful to health. The IOM report says that allowing FDA regulation would be a first step in curbing the use of tobacco and...

Institute Urges Extensive Smoking Deterrents - washingtonpost.com Hello Change Preferences . Sign Out Sign In . Register Now Print Edition . Subscribe News Politics. But that is not enough -- not when there are 440,000 deaths a year from tobacco use and $89 billion annually in smoking-related health costs, the influential Institute of Medicine said yesterday in a report that called for several new measures to further drive down tobacco use. But that is not enough -- not when there are...

Member Center Become a member. The AMA continues to urge Congress to pass legislation to authorize effective FDA regulation of tobacco products, which would end the cruel irony that cigarettes are the most important preventable cause of death and disease in the United States and one of the least regulated products in our society.

In fact, it's now on a path toward letting the Food and Drug Administration regulate the advertising and sale of cigarettes, but not ban either nicotine or tobacco. We talk about the sale of cigarettes as if it's legitimate commerce, when in fact this is a product that debilitates and kills. At one point he defended the 44-cent increase that jacked up the state cigarette tax to almost a dollar and raised the average price per pack at Hoosier outlets to $4. Sure, outlawing cigarette sales...