Seventy-four per cent children in Kerala use tobacco, according to a recent multi-site survey conducted by National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Parliament yesterday unanimously approved three regulations pertaining to printing pictorial warnings on packets of cigarettes. These regulations were presented under the provisions of the National
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told Parliament yesterday that smoking killed about 20,000 persons a year in Sri Lanka. Minister Sirisena commencing the second reading debate on three regulations
Sri Lanka's parliament Wednesday unanimously passed three regulations under the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act to discourage the smoking and alcohol use in the country. Under the Act
Assam has become the first state in the country to impose a ban on the consumption of all forms of smokeless tobacco, including pan masala, by enacting a legislation that came into effect from today.
Sale, manufacturing, distribution and display of all forms of smokeless tobacco products will be banned in Assam from Thursday. State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced it in the Assembly on
The Assam government has imposed complete ban on non-smoking tobacco in the state from Thursday. Assam governor J.B. Patnaik has signed the anti-tobacco bill, which bans manufacturing, trade, advertisement,
The globe is facing a "tidal wave" of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists. It predicts the number of cancer cases will reach
<p>The World Cancer Report 2014 launched by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reveals how the cancer burden is growing at an alarming pace and emphasizes the need for urgent implementation of efficient prevention strategies to curb the disease. Read Press Release on this report.</p>
Under the Montreal Protocol, developing countries are required to phase out controlled uses of methyl bromide by 1 January 2015 and this UNEP publication analyzes factors that may affect the continuity of methyl bromide phase-out in the developing countries and possible ways to mitigate them.
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