India will soon have laboratories that can measure the amount of nicotine and tar that a cigarette contains. The first-of-its-kind apex laboratory will soon come up in Chandigarh along with four regional laboratories across India. The move, health ministry officials say, gains significance as the amount of nicotine in cigarettes sold in India has been found to be way above than the global cut-off. Senior officials from the health ministry will visit Chandigarh next week to work on the modalities. The regional laboratories will be in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Chennai. The labs will contain equipment that will collect the smoke and analyse the carcinogenic content that it contains. Ear... [Read more]