• January 26, 2012: Budgam Declared First Smoke Free District In Jammu & Kashmir

• Golaghat, 14th November 2011: Schools in Golaghat, Assam declared as "Tobacco-free Educational Institutions"

• New Delhi, 14th November 2011:Over 48% of educational institutions even with signage had tobacco products being sold within 100 yards across five states of the country, reveals a survey

• October 22, 2011: Ernakulam District in Kerala declared Smoke Free

• September 05, 2011: Release of the findings of the Study Report of "Gutka/Paan Masala Industry Violating the New Plastic Rules"

• May 31, 2011: Voluntary Association of India and its State Partners conducted a broad range of activities across all states on World No Tobacco Day

• New Delhi, 13th April, 2011: Supreme Court hearing on The Ankur Gutkha Vs. India Asthama Care Society

• New Delhi, 4-5th April, 2011: National Consultation on Smokeless Tobacco

• New Delhi, 17th March, 2011: Sushma Swaraj, Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, Members of Parliament and Public Health experts met the cancer patients at the Voices of Victims(VoV) programme organized by Action Council Against Tobacco (ACT India), Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Salaam Bombay Foundation and Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in New Delhi.

• Tax Increased On Tobacco Products In Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir And Rajasthan

• Jaipur, 13 March, 2011: Media Coverage: Media Sensitization Workshop On Tax Increase On Tobacco Products In Rajasthan

• New Delhi, 24th February, 2011: The Directors of Regional Cancer Centres in India wrote leters to Prime Minister on the ban of sale of Gutka Products

• New Delhi, 11th February, 2011: Voices of Victims - An event conceived by Cancer Victims

• Shimla, 02 February, 2011: VHAI in collaboration with its state partner Himachal Voluntary Health Association (HPVHA) organized Media Sensitization workshop

• New Delhi On 6th January, 2011: Pack Warning Case Hearing Held In The Supreme Court

• New Delhi, December 2010: Press Meets at State level on the deferment of New Pictorial Health Warning

• New Delhi, December 1, 2010: Mouth cancer warnings on all tobacco products sold in India from December 1, 2010

• New Delhi, November 25, 2010: Press Conference organized showing concern over the implementation of pictorial health warnings.

• Bhubaneswar, Oct. 27, 2010: In a move that would promote the ideas of addiction-free urban living, Bhubaneswar has been declared a smoke-free city.

• New Delhi, October 19, 2010: Global Adult Tobacco Survey Report 2010 (India) Released

• Tripura, September 26, 2010: VHAI and Voluntary Health Association of Tripura (VHAT) organized a media sensitization workshop on Smoke Free Agartala

• Shimla, 21st September, 2010: One day workshop to kick start the 'Tobacco-free Educational Institutions' campaign was organized by HPVHA in collaboration with State Tobacco Control Cell on the 21st September, 2010 at Hotel Holiday Home, Shimla.

• August 26, 2010: VHAI in collaboration with Jammu & Kashmir Voluntary Health and Development Association (JKVHADA) and Times of India organized a Media Sensitization Workshop on COTPA on 26th August, 2010 at the University Campus, Jammu

• July 30, 2010: VHAI releases the study report on Tobacco Control and the Training of Health Care Providers

• Himachal Pradesh, 9th July 2010: Himachal Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (HPVHA) conducted media sensitization workshop on Smoke Free Shimla

• Patna, 30th June 2010: The Bihar Chapter of the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) released its specially commissioned research study "At the crossroads of life and livelihood" Media coverage

• Jharkhand, 29th June, 2010: VHAI in collaboration with Voluntary Health Action of Jharkhand (JVHA) released the tobacco and poverty study in Jharkhand

• June 17, 2010 Sikkim: Media Sensitization Workshop on Smoke Free Sikkim

• Uttar Pradesh, 3rd June, 2010: VHAI in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (UVHA) released the tobacco and poverty study in Luckow, U.P Media coverage       Photo Gallery

• May 31, 2010: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India and the World Health Organisation (WHO) for organizing a programme on the occasion of World No Tobacco day, 2010 at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi

• New Delhi, April 21, 2010: VHAI Releases Research Study On Tobacco And Poverty In India

• Srinagar, March 27, 2010: Voluntary Health Association of India conducted State level Advocacy Programme in Srinagar.

• New Delhi, 20 March, 2010: VHAI along with Rajasthan Voluntary Health Association (RVHA) organized a one day workshop on Tobacco Control Act and National Tobacco Control Programme on 20th March in the District Karauli in Rajasthan.

• March 16, 2010: Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (UPVHA) in collaboration with Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) organized a Media Sensitization Meeting on Child Rights and Child Labour in Bidi Industry at Lucknow, U.P.

• 25th February, 2010: Round Table Meeting on Child Labour and Child Rights Concerns in Bidi Industry at Lucknow, U.P

• 24th February 2010: Media Sensitization Meeting on Child Rights and Child Labour at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

• February 9th, 2010: Media Sensitization Workshop on Child Rights and Child Labour at Patna, Bihar

• Itanagar, Feb 01, 2010: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Itanagar Press Club (IPC), organized sensitization workshop for Several Law Enforcement Officers

• January 21, 2010: Media Sensitization Workshop on Tobacco Control at Ahmedabad, Gujarat

• January 21, 2010: District level Advocacy Workshop on Tobacco Control at Jorhat, Assam

• January 16, 2010: Distric Level Workshop on Tobacco Control and Effective Implementation of COTPA 2003 , Himachal Pradesh

• January 16, 2010: Poster release and Orientation cum Planning meeting of District Tobacco Control Monitoring Team , Madhya Pradesh

• January 09, 2010: Release of Parliamentary Kit in Assam

• January 09,2010: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Itanagar Press Club (IPC), organized a media advocacy workshop on Tobacco Control

• December 22, 2009: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Voluntary Health Association of India - Aparajita successfully released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of Bhubaneswar City at Hotel New Marrion, Bhubaneswar

• December 22, 2009: Media Sensitisation workshop at Patna, Bihar

• December 04, 2009: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (UPVHA) organized Advocacy Workshop on 4th December, 2009 at Gemini Continental, Lucknow.

• November 22, 2009: Madhya Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (MPVHA) released the findings of the Air Quality Monitoring

• November 20, 2009: Kerala Voluntary Health Association (KVHS) released the findings of the Air Quality Monitoring

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Voluntary Health Association of Meghalaya (VHAM) successfully released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of Shillong City at Shillong Press Club, Meghalaya

• November 13, 2009: Roundtable Meeting on Child Rights and Child Labour

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (UPVHA) successfully released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of Lucknow City at UP Press Club, Lucknow

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) successfully released the findings of Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) Study conducted in India at Constitution Club, New Delhi

• The Government of Delhi admitted that 46,531 people have been fined/challaned since the imposition of the smoking ban last year in a plea filed by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) under the Right to Information Act

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) organized advocacy campaign in West Bengal with 160 Legislators in collaboration with the State Standing Committee of Health and Family Welfare

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) conducted advocacy with the Village/Block/District level elected representatives at Gujarat for creation of "Tobacco free Villages"

• Rajasthan Voluntary Health Association (RVHA) met the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Shri Ashok Gehlot and shared the Parliamentarian Kit developed by VHAI

• Release of Advocacy brochure for Policymakers by Jammu and Kasmir Voluntary Health Association

• Voluntary Health Associaton of India (VHAI) organized a media advocacy workshop in collaboration with Cancer Foundation of India (CFI) at Park Hotel, Kolkata on 1st September 2009.

• Voluntary Health Associaton of India (VHAI) organized a media advocacy workshop in collaboration with Aparajita Voluntary Health Association of India at Hotel Marion, Bhubaneswar on 12th August 2009.

• Voluntary Health Associaton of India (VHAI) organized a media advocacy workshop in collaboration with Voluntary Health Association of Meghalaya (VHAM) at Press Club, Shillong

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Rajasthan Voluntary Health Association (RVHA) successfully released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of Jaipur City at Pink City Press Club, Jaipur

• Release of Information Kit - Anti Tobacco Advocacy Programme for Legislators of A.P. Assembly

• Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) organized refresher meeting for all the North-East State Voluntary Associations and West Bengal Partners on 20th & 21st July 2009 at Ginger Hotel, Guwahati, Assam

• Tobacco companies water down SC order and GOI notification

• World No Tobacco Day: VHAI - State VHA's Campaign on World No Tobacco Day, 2009 on Pictorial Health Warnings

• To educate public on the importance of pictorial health warnings, VHAI developed a Radio Spot (in Hindi) which was aired on Radio Mirchi & Red FM in Delhi and Jaipur on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day 2009. Radio Mirchi 93.5 Red FM

• VHAI in collaboration with its state partners organized media sensitization workshops in Lucknow and Jaipur on 23 May and 28 May 2009

• Centre to implement tobacco products warning rules from May 31, 2009

• Press Release: Govt. Dilutes Pictorial Warnings Yet Again

• Convention of Bidi Workers Organized by: Voluntary Health Association of India on April 22, 2009

• Screening of Bidi film at various state-level settings in 2009

• Press Release Issued on the crucial GoM Meet on Pictorial Warnings

• 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Mumbai

• Survey: 99% INDIANS SUPPORT SMOKE FREE LAWS IN PUBLIC PLACES

• Screening of the Documentary Film "TURNING THEIR LIVES TO ASHES on 12/02/09

• Orientation Programme for State Partners on Tobacco control - February 4-5, 2009 at VHAI

• Second National Capacity Building Workshop for NGO Personnel on Tobacco Control organized by Hriday-AFTC

• VHAI and the Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Mumbai had commissioned an opinion poll on pictorial health warnings on tobacco packages

• VHAI organised a press conference on the GOM meet on January 23rd 2009

• Coalition Meeting at Rajasthan Police Academy , Jaipur

• Sensitisation Workshop of State Tobacco Control Cell ASSAM

• Smoke Free Poll in India

• Turning Their Lives to Ashes - the story of exploitation in the bidi industry

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