New Delhi:  Government will set up an apex tobacco research lab and four other regional labs to test the the contents and emissions of various tobacco products like cigarettes and bidis and set a limit to the toxic chemicals in them. “The aim of   this endeavour  is to evaluate both smoking and smokeless tobacco products. These labs would be testing the identified chemicals of priority like nicotine, ammonia and carbon monoxide for which the WHO’s TobLabNet has already established Standard Operating Precedures (SOPs) “These labs will be the first of its kind in South Asia and initially may be regulatory laboratories to verify the declarations of the tobacco industry about the contents an... [Read more]