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Tobacco imagery in on-demand streaming content popular among adolescents and young adults in India: implications for global tobacco control.

Monika AroraGaurang P NazarAastha ChughTina RawalSurbhi ShrivastavaPraveen SinhaVineet Gill MunishFikru Tesfaye TulluKerstin SchotteJonathan R PolanskyStanton A Glantz
Published in: Tobacco control (2020)
Contrary to Section 5 of India's Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, its Rules are not being complied with by the streaming platforms. US-produced streaming media contains more tobacco incidents than Indian-produced media. There is an urgent need for better enforcement of existing Rules on streaming platforms in India, and modernisation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Article 13 guidelines to account for new streaming platforms to protect youth from tobacco imagery globally.
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