Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
On 'Anti Smoking Day' J&K Fine-Arts Society in collaboration with Shangrilla Public School has organized a poster making competition today in the premises of the school. The topic on which the poster was made is 'consequences of smoking on health and impact of on it on others'. Number of students took part in the competition. Sarvesh Gupta stood first, Srishti Gupta secured second position and Reshika Raina secured position respectively.
Study Finds Link Between Exposure To Surrogate Advertisements, Consumption Surrogate tobacco ads are now luring India's young
To mark the World No-Tobacco Day, Delhi University held a protest march in collaboration with the Delhi University Students Union, World Lung Foundation, Delhi Police and the market-association of Kamla Nagar-Jawahar Nagar on Friday morning. The participants, including faculty and students of DU marched from Jawahar Nagar to Chhatra Marg, passing colleges like Kirori Mal, Faculty of Management Studies, Ramjas, Delhi School of Economics and stopped at Faculty of Law, where artists of Awahaan, a theatre group, performed a street play on this theme.
Senior academicians and health professionals at a media briefing held here on Friday called for a total ban on the manufacturing and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco-related products, saying that these products were injurious to human health and damaging to the national economy. The briefing was organised to mark the "World No-tobacco Day' observed on Friday. The theme this year was "Tobacco-free youth'.
Delhi health minister Dr Yoganand Shastri on Friday said that the Centre was likely to hike the penalty for smoking in public places from the current Rs 200 to Rs 1,000. An announcement in this regard may be made on Saturday on the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day. "Though the Anti-smoking Act came into force in 1998 only, the result has not been good due to the nominal fine amount. I have been told that the Central government would raise the fine to Rs 1,000 on Saturday," he said.
The World Health Organisation said Friday that only a total ban on all forms of tobacco advertising can stop the
World No Tobacco Day 2008 will be observed today in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world with the theme
World Antismoking day is observed throughout the world on May 31, 2008 each year. This day provides us the opportunity to highlight and re-emphasize the injurious effects of smoking on human health. This day would be observed in AFIC/NIHC on 31st May 2008 with a renewed pledge to take this message to patients suffering from heart disease and general public and convince them to quit smoking.
A bill to regulate tobacco products has lost the support of a black antismoking group, which said Thursday that the legislation failed to adequately protect the health of African-Americans because it would not ban menthol flavorings from cigarettes. The legislation, which has been cleared by crucial committees in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, would ban candy, fruit and spice flavorings in cigarettes, but specifically exempts menthol flavorings.
For years, smokers have been exhorted to take the initiative and quit: use a nicotine patch, chew nicotine gum, take a prescription medication that can help, call a help line, just say no. But a new study finds that stopping is seldom an individual decision. Smokers tend to quit in groups, the study finds, which means smoking cessation programs should work best if they focus on groups rather than individuals. It also means that people may help many more than just themselves by quitting: quitting can have a ripple effect prompting an entire social network to break the habit.
