Smoking 'damages eyes as well as lungs'
Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists. Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to blindness,
Tobacco
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Designate Tobacco Monitors to check nicotine use: Health Ministry to educational institutes
Under a set of revised guidelines, institution managements are also asked to ensure that no tobacco product is sold inside premises and in an area within 100 yards of such. The Union Health Ministry
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Health dept to get WHO award for tobacco control
Jaipur: State’s health department is among five in South-East Asia region of WHO to receive award for its accomplishment in the area of tobacco control. It is the only government body in the country which
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Kolkata air too toxic for kids
KOLKATA: There has been an alarming rise in asthma and chronic bronchial complications in newborns in Kolkata with no history of these issues in their parents. These can only be attributed to the city’s
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E-cigarettes can cause poisoning: Study
NEW DELHI: Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) can cause poisoning, a government panel has said, adding another stroke of approval to the health ministry's advisory to states asking them to ban
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National tobacco control strategies
Tobacco kills more than 7 million people per year and is costing the world economy US$1.4 trillion annually in health care costs and productivity losses. Tobacco growing causes up to 5 percent of deforestation
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Govt increases size of pictorial warning on cigarettes to 60pc
While the Islamabad High Court waits to hear a case regarding the enlarged pictorial health warning on cigarette packaging, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Tuesday issued a notification
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Genetically modified 'shortcut' boosts plant growth by 40%
Scientists in the US have engineered tobacco plants that can grow up to 40% larger than normal in field trials. The researchers say they have found a way of overcoming natural restrictions in the process
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Bidi smoking cost India 805.5 billion last year, says Study
The poor already bear the brunt of these costs, and unhindered use of bidi tobacco threatens to push even more households into poverty, according to the study published in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Singapore raises minimum smoking age to 19
The minimum legal age for smoking in the Republic will be raised to 19 years old from Jan 1. Issuing a reminder a few days before the new rule kicks in, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Friday that