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 …
With support from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and World Health Organization, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and HRDIAY will be organising a three-day international conference on “Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for Tobacco” at Taj Palace Hotel here from September 10. …
Sri Lankans spend Rs. 210 million a day on smoking while 54 Lankans die daily from smoke related diseases, a Health Ministry spokesman said. Annually 20,000 Sri Lankans die from smoking and state hospitals spend Rs. 12 billion to treat persons falling sick due to smoking, the spokesman said. He …
Nearly a quarter of the population of men aged 15-24 years in rural areas of Thiruvananthapuram are smokers. While 21.1% of young men are regular smokers, 22.2% of the men in the age group of 55-64 gravitated towards smokeless tobacco products over the past seven years, says a study. The …
This Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (TCP) report provides data-based scientific evidence on the current situation of tobacco control policy implementation and provides suggestions for more effective implementation.
No, it is not World No Tobacco Day, May 31, but the Hemant Soren government seems to have suddenly woken up to the perils of public smoking, if today’s advertisements of “dhumrapaan nished” for “swasthya Jharkhand” are any indication. The advertisements, printed on behalf of the state public relations department, …
Chief minister Siddaramaiah’s promise of a garbage-free Bangalore has hit a roadblock. The state health department has taken exception to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) tying up with a tobacco company to implement the zero-garbage initiative in a few wards of the city. In a July 30 letter to …
Sri Lanka will see a possible drastic increase in smoking related deaths in the next two decades if preventive measures are not taken, WHO officials said. Smoking related deaths could reach 40,000 per year in Sri Lanka in the next two decades, Health Services Director General Dr. Palitha Mahipala said. …
The Health Ministry yesterday said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had extended its fullest support for Sri Lanka’s battle against tobacco and smoking. The spokesman for the Health Ministry, Dharma Wanninayake, said that two WHO representatives namely, Programme Manager of WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative, Dr. Armando Peruga, and Senior …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the government for being hand in glove with the tobacco industry and not making any efforts to enforce guidelines to limit the effect of advertisements promoting tobacco products in the country. A bench headed by Justice G.S. Singhvi over-ruled a Bombay High …
Bombay High Court also under fire for interim stay orders. The Supreme Court on Monday removed all hurdles to implementation of Point of Sale Rules on tobacco and tobacco products. As per the rule, each display board should contain, in an Indian language, a warning that ‘tobacco causes cancer’ or …
After the passage of the Anti-tobacco Bill in the Assembly, the Assam Government is now planning to bring in a new legislation to curb manufacture and sale of all forms of smoking products in the State. “Our first aim is to implement the Anti-tobacco Bill for all forms of smokeless …
Order of the Supreme Court of India on the constitutional validity of The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 and The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Rules, 2004 dated 22/07/2013.
Guwahati: A Bill was introduced in Assam Assembly on Tuesday by the State Health Department for imposing ban on consumption, trading, manufacturing, distribution and advertising of a wide range of tobacco and tobacco products and other items containing tobacco as an ingredient. The Bill was tabled by the State health …
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is implemented quickly by all nations, reports BSS. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva yesterday, each year tobacco …
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is implemented quickly by all nations. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva on Wednesday, each year tobacco kills an approximately …
Srinagar has become the first district in the country to ban sale of tobacco products near hospitals. It is also the first district to issue orders for cancellation of registration of shops if caught violating section 6 of COTPA. District Magistrate Srinagar, Farooq Ahmed Shah imposed a complete ban on …
Jaipur:The Rajasthan high court has sought the responses of Union and state governments on a PIL seeking a ban on production, storage and selling of cigarettes, bidi and all other tobacco products in the state. In a Public Interest Litigation filed by Rajasthan Jan Morcha, an NGO, it has been …
Tobacco Control Cell (TCC) of Federal Health Ministry Pakistan has disclosed the increase of trend of usage of tobacco across the country as 1,200 children of aged 6 to 15 are becoming smokers every day while 274 people are dying every day through regular smoking. The TCC in its awareness …
The Odisha High Court on Friday issued notice to the Central government in response to an amended PIL seeking prohibition in manufacture, sale and marketing of smokeless tobacco products such as gutka, zarda, pan masala, khaini, gudakhu which contains nicotine that causes cancer. A Division Bench of the High Court …
The Odisha High Court today issued notice to the Centre in response to a PIL seeking prohibition on manufacture, sale and marketing of smokeless tobacco products like gutkha, zarda, pan masala, khaini and gudakhu which contain harmful nicotine. A division bench of Justice Pradeep K Mohanty and Justice S K …
