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 …
Resist Taboo, Fight Graft To Get Better Treatment Pune: Reshma (name changed) was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) during a free health check-up camp held in Satara, about 109 km from Pune. Government doctors asked her husband to start treatment immediately. The man first refused to accept that his wife has …
More people smoke worldwide today than in 1980, as population growth surges and cigarettes gain popularity in countries such as China, India and Russia, researchers said Tuesday. 270fce4639917f8434891238d4d47f072d999972For instance, China boasted nearly 100 million more smokers in 2012 than it had three decades ago, even though its smoking rate fell …
The proportion of Indian men who smoke every day has fallen from a third to a little over a fifth over the last three decades, but the percentage of women smokers has remained largely unchanged. Given the country’s population, this means in absolute numbers India has more women smokers than …
If you walk into a coffee-house and see more women smoking than was the case years ago – that picture may indeed be true, says a recently released global study on tobacco consumption. While Indian men increasingly show signs of snuffing out the habit, tobacco consumption among women remains virtually …
The Supreme Court today directed the government to strictly implement the anti-tobacco provisions of Tobacco Product Control and Regulatory Act and work for protecting public health. A three-member full bench of Justices Kalyan Shrestha, Tarka Raj Bhatta and Gyanendra Bahadur Karki issued mandamus order to the authorities — the Office …
NC: Almost exactly two years after the legislation was re-done, that too a year after its enactment, the Tobacco Control Act is up for amendment once more. The national council (NC) will take up the amendment of the controversial Act yet again during the second Parliament session scheduled to start …
In what is seen as a major achievement, the South Goa district has achieved the status as a smoke-free district. It is now just a matter of time and a mere formality before the government declares South Goa a smoke free district. In a communiqué, the Union, South East Asia …
A new World Bank report warns that risky behaviors –smoking, using illicit drugs, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diets, and unsafe sex— are increasing globally and pose a growing threat to the health of individuals, particularly in developing countries. The report looks at how individual choices that lead to these behaviors are …
Health Committees will be set up in all state institutions and schools from January 1 to control tobacco and smoking. Forty Sri Lankans die daily from strokes and most of them had strokes due to smoking, Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said. Addressing an awareness raising program for school children at …
In a survey of 1836 adult US smokers, when using a direct comparison measure, 22.1% reported snus was less harmful than were cigarettes. When asked indirectly (estimating the health risk of snus and cigarettes in 2 seprate questions and comparing the answers to each other), 51.6% rated snus as less …
The High Court on Monday directed the State government to strictly implement the Cotpa Act, 2003—which prohibits advertisement and regulation of tobacco business—and punish the violators accordingly. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice S N Satyanarayana directed the government to consider the petition by the …
The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and is being officially classified as carcinogenic to humans, the World Health Organization's cancer agency said on Thursday. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cited data indicating that in 2010, 223,000 deaths from lung cancer worldwide resulted from air …
The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and should now be classified as carcinogenic to humans, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) cancer agency said on Thursday. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cited data indicating that in 2010, 223,000 deaths from lung cancer worldwide resulted from …
It is one report card, Bhopal will feel bad about. The city has shown an alarming rise in cases of mouth cancer with most cases an outcome of tobacco consumption, going by latest report of National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP). Among old NCRP, a network of cancer registries in India, …
Speakers at a discussion yesterday disclosed that some 60,000 people die and 12 lakhs become cripple due to diseases caused by smoking every year. They said over four crore people are habituated with smoking across the country, while a large number of women have been taking various types of raw …
These will be dubbed in 16 languages for pan India coverage The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will be replacing two anti-tobacco health spots with new ones titled--‘Child’ and ‘Dhuan’. The change will be effective from October 2. These spots will be dubbed in 16 languages for a …
It is estimated that 3 lakh women die across the world each year from heart attacks. It kills, in fact, six times as many women as breast cancer does. Closer home, heart diseases are the largest killer of Indian women. Yet, women form the smallest group of patients visiting cardiac …
Referring to the report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Japanese researchers and a number of physicians told that people of Bangladesh are living in the risks of non-communicable diseases such as cardiac arrest, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Out of the total, 61 per cent people die of such diseases …
Tobacco inflicts huge damage on the health of India’s people and could be clocking up a death toll of 1.5 million a year by 2020 if more users are not persuaded to kick the habit, an international report said on Thursday. Despite having signed up to a global treaty on …
Noting that use of tobacco imposes serious consequences on economy and society, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said its control needs a combination of political and public health action and multi-sectoral policies will drive down its demand and supply. In a televised address at ‘The International Conference on Public …
