Govt ban tobacco in plastics package

the law regulating the use of the environmentally harmful polymers. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, however, said it is impractical and undesirable to impose a blanket ban on the use of plastic all over the country. On February 2, the Supreme Court had refused to grant more time to the Centre for implementing the law to regulate the use of plastic for packaging tobacco products and asked it to notify the ban within two days.