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 …
The Supreme Court today agreed to advance its hearing and ruling on a plea for strict implementation of the laws for display of pictorial warnings to discourage the use of tobacco and its products such as cigarette and “beedi”. A Bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the petition by …
A ban on showing tobacco products at the point of sale in small shops accross the UK has come into force. The display of such goods has been illegal in large stores and supermarkets since 2012. Now small stores, and other outlets such as pubs and clubs, will also have …
KOLKATA: Does the role of tobacco in causing cancer needs further scrutiny? BJP MP Dilip Gandhi's observation in Parliament last week, seeking a medical board to examine the health effects of tobacco on the Indian population before going ahead with the decision of mandating pictorial warnings on tobacco products, has …
Rubbish Panel Views On Cancer Deaths Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), which runs one of the busiest cancer centres in the country, rubbished the report of a parliamentary panel chief who said there was no Indian study to prove that the use of tobacco is …
The Health Ministry today postponed indefinitely the enforcement of tougher anti-tobacco pack warnings it had notified in October last year for implementation from April 1 this year. The postponement came in the form of a “corrigendum” to the ministry’s October 2014 notification which required the tobacco industry to print pictorial …
The Union health ministry’s decision to defer the implementation of a notification for increasing the size of pictorial health warning on cigarette packets and various other tobacco products has not gone down well with the public health experts and tobacco control advocates. In a letter to the Prime Minister, they …
Citizens' committees to educate the people in all constituencies Sale, purchase, storage and manufacturing of all the forms of chewable tobacco, including gutkha and pan masala containing tobacco, are banned in the national Capital from today. In order to implement the order, the Delhi Government has decided to run campaigns …
If a woman smokes during pregnancy, doctors may actually be able to tell simply by looking at the fetus. Scientists have found that the harmful effects of smoking may be reflected in the facial movements of the mothers' unborn babies. In this latest study, the researchers looked at 4-D ultrasound …
New findings published in the journal Circulation show that children who are exposed to their parents' secondhand smoke are at double the risk of developing heart disease later in life. For the study, over 2,500 children were examined throughout a 26 year period. Findings revealed that those who had parents …
A global anti-tobacco conference that ended yesterday urged countries to take steps to reduce the consumption of tobacco, which it said was a leading cause of disease and death worldwide. In its final declaration, the 16th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Abu Dhabi also called for wider implementation …
AT LAST year’s ten-day annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the prime minister, Li Keqiang, declared “war” on pollution. On March 15th, at the end of this year’s meeting, he admitted that government efforts were falling far short of public expectations. He failed to mention …
European Union diplomats have recently approved new anti-tobaco legislation, including the bloc's first rules on e-cigarettes, allowing most e-cigarettes to be sold as consumer products rather than more tightly regulated medical devices. In the absence of Federal Regulations, US states like New York & Oklahoma have seen highly debated proposals …
New WHO report shows a declining rate of tobacco use and an increase in numbers of non-smokers. But governments must intensify action to combat the tobacco industry and dramatically reduce consumption of tobacco products to, in turn, protect public health says the report released at the World Conference on Tobacco …
The Committee on Subordinate Legislation present this Fourth Report of the Committee on examination of the provisions contained in the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 and the rules framed thereunder. The Cigarettes and other Tobacco …
With a population of about 20 lakh, Nagaland is considered the second highest tobacco consuming State with 57 per cent of the populace into the tobacco habit. The statistics is more worrisome as 37 per cent of students are into smoking habit while 41 per cent school children are users …
The verdict's not yet out on whether or not e-cigarette's are safe. However, new findings published in the journal Health Communications shows that advertisements for them may actually be enticing current and even former tobacco smokers to pick up another cigarette. For the study, researchers examined over 800 daily, intermittent …
Amid apprehensions that the new pictorial warnings on all tobacco products may be disregarded by various players, Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) on Thursday said the tobacco industry is making attempts to scuttle the implementation of the new health warnings. “The industry is falsely claiming that livelihoods of workers …
A fetus exposed to tobacco smoke may be at increased risk for diabetes in adulthood, a new study of adult daughters finds. The results will be presented in a poster Saturday, March 7, at ENDO 2015, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Diego. Women whose parents smoked …
Findings published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research show that governmental smoking bans don't seem to be helping smokers quit. Researchers at Concordia University have found no significant evidence that smoking bans stop in-home smoking habits. "What distinguishes people who restrict smoking at home is the presence of a …
Ireland has become the first country in Europe to ban branded cigarette packets. The Republic’s second chamber, the Seanad, passed the plain packaging law on Tuesday night, which also makes it illegal to sell cigarettes in lipstick-style containers designed for female smokers. The public health (standardised packaging of tobacco) bill …
