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. Countries have adopted this indicator to report progress also towards the tobacco reduction target under the Global Action Plan …
Smokers and non-smokers both agree that larger graphic health warnings on cigarette packs will not be strong enough to deter people from the habit. The comments came as the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health conducted a signature campaign today seeking public support for the government’s proposal to strengthen …
KARACHI: An alarmingly large number of women in Orangi Town are hooked to tobacco, says a recent study that calls for immediate preventive measures to control the use of the hazardous substance that not only puts women at a great risk of developing multiple illnesses but can also endanger and …
Two weeks after the Beijing government adopted its strictest-ever smoking ban, some people are still flouting the rules, the Beijing Health Inspection Agency said yesterday. A hotel in Chaoyang District was fined 2,000 yuan (US$320) for failing to install “no smoking” signs, while a a company in Haidian District was …
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Smoking is responsible for nearly half of deaths due to certain types of cancers in 2011, a US study said Monday. Some 48.5 percent of nearly 346,000 deaths attributed to one of the 12 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking were due …
Singapore's Ministry of Health has announced plans to ban existing and emerging tobacco products in two phases as a "pre-emptive measure to protect public health against the known and potential harms of such products". Any project containing nicotine or tobacco that may be used topically for application, by implant or …
High tobacco consumption by people is the culprit, finds survey by Tata Hospital A study by Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, has allayed fears that radiations fromthe Kaiga nuclear power plant in Uttara Kannada district are causing cancer among people in nearby villages. DH PHOTO An interim report of the Tata …
More than 1,000 inspectors, hefty fines and a widespread media campaign support crackdown in city with 4.2m smokers Qi Xingming woke up on Monday morning and took his place on the frontline of China’s war on cigarettes. Wearing a red armband and a panama hat emblazoned with the name of …
India is a large country with each State having distinct social, cultural and economic characteristics. Tobacco epidemic is not uniform across the country. There are wide variations in tobacco consumption across age, sex, regions and socio-economic classes. This study was conducted to understand the wide inequalities in patterns of smoking …
Kohima: The Mission Director of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Nagaland Sukhato A Sema has informed that the state of Nagaland, with 57 per cent of tobacco users, is the second highest consumer of tobacco in the country. According to an official report on Sunday, Dr Sema was speaking …
Public smoking in China's capital, Beijing, is now banned after the introduction of a new law. China has over 300 million smokers and over a million Chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year. Smoking bans already existed in China, but have largely failed to crack down on the habit. …
The Egyptian government has recently taken serious measures to reduce smoking. However, the country is still the largest tobacco market in the Arab world, and has one of the top 10 per capita cigarette consumption. Last year, an Egyptian study revealed that 24.4 percent of Egypt's 90 million populations are …
Despite a ban on tobacco-mixed gutka in Madhya Pradesh, state's population is one of the worst affected, going by data on prevalence of tobacco use versus tobacco-related cancers. Moreover, MP is one of the worst states on enforcement of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COPTA). With four in 10 …
Health Minister Iruthisham Adam has stated that Maldivians on average start smoking at a very young age and that habit usually starts from home. She made the statement in the official statement released on the International Anti- Smoking Day. Minister Iruthisham stated that even though the Government had initiated measures …
ISLAMABAD: Health experts on Sunday said that larger pictorial labels are more effective in informing about the dangers of smoking. They were addressing a concluding session of four-day awareness workshop on ‘Pictorial Health Warning in Pakistan’, jointly organised by the Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) and Coalition for …
Following a controversy sparked recently over remarks by some Members of Parliament on tobacco use, a group of leading film-makers is seeking to dilute the strong tobacco control measures undertaken by successive governments. The film-makers have made a representation to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to withdraw the stipulation that …
ISLAMABAD: Medical practitioners have said that every year over 80,000 Pakistanis get different heart diseases and after every two minutes a countryman suffers from heart attack. They were addressing the participants of a workshop ‘enhanced pictorial health warning in Pakistan’ on Sunday jointly organised by the Society for Alternative Media …
RESIDENTS in Beijing can report on indoor smoking in public venues after the smoking ban takes effect in June, a government official said today. The Beijing municipal legislature passed a bill in November last year, banning smoking in all indoor public places, workplaces, and on public transportation. Liu Zejun, director …
Faced with opposition from public health activists, the health ministry is set to intervene and may soon urge the finance ministry to distance itself from an upcoming international conference in New Delhi, being co-organised by a consortium funded by several transnational tobacco companies. The event - The 12th Annual Asia …
The anti-tobacco health advisory , considered an irritant by most filmmakers, could be on its way out. The government instead proposes to replace the scroll with advertisements starring top actors that will be screened before the film or during the interval. The on-screen warning was first introduced in 2012 after …
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Starting in the fall semester, the University of Iowa will become the first of the state's three public universities to ban all forms of tobacco on its campus. Smoking cigarettes was outlawed at UI in conjunction with the state's Smoke Free Air Act in 2008, but …
