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 …
Stress-relief is cited single largest reason for picking up the habit The metro has found its way to the top of a ranking of Indian cities with respect to cigarette consumption. A recent study has brought to light several other alarming statistics too. A national survey on tobacco usage habits …
The Republic of Ireland has become the first country in Europe to try to pass a law banning the sale of branded cigarette and tobacco packets. The proposed legislation would force tobacco firms to use plain packaging, removing all logos and trademark colours from cigarette packets. Irish Minister for Health …
Public health and tobacco control activists called for a comprehensive ban on all forms of tobacco advertising and promotion in the nation's advertisement law, which is being revised. In the publicized draft amendment to the current law, which took effect in early 1995, media including radio, TV, movies, newspapers, websites …
What does it mean when an Act is repeatedly amended? Failure. This is what some Assembly members felt, when discussing the tobacco control (amendment) bill. So it is with the Tobacco Control Act 2014. The National Assembly on Friday endorsed the Tobacco Control Act 2014 with 37 “yes” votes. Five …
Russia’s ban on smoking in bars and restaurants took effect yesterday as the government pressed on with a crackdown on tobacco consumption in the face of protests from cigarette makers. The batch of anti-tobacco measures rolled out includes a prohibition on displaying cigarettes in stores. They add to a previous …
Gariphema village in Nagaland has been declared the country’s first “tobacco-free village”. The declaration was made by Principal Secretary R Benchilo Thong on the occasion of “World No Tobacco Day” on Saturday at the Gariphema Village Council hall near here. It was result of an initiative taken by the Gariphema …
The report on “Economic Burden of Tobacco Related Diseases in India”, supported by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the WHO Country Office for India, was developed by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). The report estimates direct and indirect costs from all diseases …
A sweeping antismoking bill enacted in Russia last year has resulted in a 12% drop in cigarette consumption in what had been the world's second largest market, a legislator in charge of national health issues said Friday. The news of the decline comes as Russia prepares to implement a second, …
15% students aged 13-15 use tobacco in Southeast Asia The prevalence of tobacco use is increasing among young people in Southeast Asia, with nearly 15% of students aged 13-15 years using some form of tobacco in the region. The finding was disclosed in a press release by the World Health …
As per a survey by the Global Adult Tobacco Survey, Assam has about 39 percent of tobacco users, which includes the consumers of cigarettes, bidis and raw tobacco. The survey catered to people from age 15 and above. Talking on this issue, State Tobacco Control Cell’s State Nodal Officer Arundhati …
The number of smokers in the country increased by eight percent from 41 percent to 49 percent in last one year, a survey revealed in the city on Sunday. The rise in the number of young smokers was alarming at 12 percent from 57 to 69 percent in one year, …
Ban cigarette filters. Start a deposit-return scheme for used butts. Hold manufacturers responsible for clean-ups. Place warnings on packets about the impact of simply flicking one’s used cigarettes away. These are among the policy measures that Thomas Novotny of the San Diego State University in the US and Elli Slaughter …
Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC) yesterday stressed that it was unclear as to which size of the Pictorial Health Warnings (PHWs) was to be used under the precedence of authority, as the Parliament had unanimously approved covering 80 percent with PHWs, and the Court of Appeal had delivered a …
At least two hundred tobaccos kilns have been set up at different villages of three upazilas in Lalmonirhat district for processing tobacco leafs. Funded by tobacco companies, these kilns pose serious threat for the environment in the villages. Unaware farmers who are engaged in tobacco cultivation set up these tobacco …
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the Appeal Court verdict on pictorial warnings on cigarette packets. He said he would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to bring in fresh legislation to implement the government decision to print pictorial warnings on 80% of the display areas of …
Children who cannot legally buy cigarettes harvest tobacco, use heavy machinery and climb into barn rafters to dry leaves. During shifts as long as 12 hours, these workers – some as young as seven – are exposed to nicotine, pesticides and extreme heat. These are not dispatches from Malawi or …
Children working on tobacco farms in the United States are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released. While US law prohibits the sale of tobacco products to children, children can legally work on tobacco farms in the US. The world’s largest …
The Court of Appeal approved graphic health warnings covering 50 to 60 percent of cigarette packets after the Tobacco Company challenged the Health Ministry's 2012 gazette notification, a ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said the Court of Appeal had dismissed a writ application filed by the company and allowed graphic …
A Sri Lankan court today dismissed a writ application filed by the country's leading manufacturer of tobacco products against the government's regulation to cover cigarette packs with pictorial warnings. The Court of Appeal dismissed the petition filed by the Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) challenging the government's special gazette notification on …
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena, former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and others taking part in a Sathyagraha against tobacco. About 65 persons between 40 and 55 years die from smoking and children of 65 families become helpless in Sri Lanka daily. Annually 21,000 Sri Lankans die from smoking. Over 60 percent …
