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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• Shimla, October 02, 2010: Shimla was officially declared a smoke-free city on October 02, 2010 on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

• 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

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

• 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

• May 31, 20101 - World No Tobacco Day

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

• 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.

• February 02, 2010: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Cancer Foundation of India (CFI) released the findings of the Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) Study in Kolkata

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

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

• 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 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 23, 2009: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with MPVHA successfully released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of MP

• November 21, 2009: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with KVHA successfully released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of Kerala

• November 20, 2009: 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: Over 17 Lakh Children Engaged in Bidi Rolling in India

• November 11, 2009: 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

• October 29, 2009: Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) study conducted by the Voluntary Health Association of India and 11 other partner organizations

• India Celebrates 1st Smoke Free Anniversary on October 02, 2009

• Release of Advocacy Kit by Hon'ble Speaker, J & K Assembly at Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir

• Screening of the Beedi Film in Jharkhand, organized by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI)

• August 12, 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

• August 06, 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 • July 28, 2009: Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with Rajasthan Voluntary Health Association (RVHA) released the Air Quality Monitoring Study in Bars and Restaurants of Jaipur City at Pink City Press Club, Jaipur • July 17, 2009: Bidi companies violating SC order, gutkha brands water down pictorial warnings • June 10, 2009: 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 •VHAI in collaboration with its state partners organized media sensitization workshops in Lucknow and Jaipur on 23 May and 28 May 2009 • May 06, 2009: Supreme Court order Pack Warnings to be implemented from May 31, 2009 • SC asks Govt. to explain on tobacco warning • May 03, 2009 : Govt. Dilutes Pictorial Warnings Yet Again • April 07, 2009 Group of Ministers (GoM) meet on Pictorial Warnings on 8th April, 2009 • February 23, 2009 Survey released: 99% Indians support smoke free laws in public places • January 30, 2009 Opinion Poll: Pictorial Health Warnings on Tobacco Packages • January 22, 2009 Press Conference organized on the GoM meet on January 23, 2009 • January 08, 2009 Government admitted pressure from the tobacco industry in an RTI filed by VHAI