
Introduction
The consumption of tobacco products continues to be a major public health issue in India, with smoking-related diseases causing numerous deaths annually. According to estimates cited in the World Health Organization’s (“WHO”) ‘Economic Costs of Diseases and Deaths Attributable to Tobacco Use in India’ study, “the economic burden of diseases and premature deaths attributable to smoking and smokeless tobacco use by persons over 35 years of age in India is over 1% of India’s GDP”. Further, the expenditure incurred to treat tobacco related illnesses and diseases accounts for 5.3% of the total private and public health spending in India in a year[1].
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