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 government is all set to notify new pictorial warning for the tobacco products. A truncated torso with a diseased lung will replace the controversial blurred image that appeared to be resembling England footballer John Terry as pictorial warning on the cigarette packs. According to a senior official in the …
Lucknow: Be ready to pay 25-30% more for every cigarette puff and gutka pouch. The state government on Friday decided to increase the tax on tobacco products — from the existing 12.5% to maximum 50% . As per the cabinet decision on Friday, the tobacco products have been put in …
With “gutka” consumption in the State assuming ominous proportions and the younger generation getting increasingly addicted to tobacco, a “tobacco-free” Uttar Pradesh is high on the agenda of the Akhilesh Yadav Government. Chief Secretary Javed Usmani said on Thursday that an action plan would be formulated for making UP tobacco-free. …
Back then, it was the epitome of macho style. Grey-haired daddies puffed on pipes, villains bit off cigars and Amitabh even made the bidi look hep when he lit one in Deewar. When he played Don in 1978, he smoked his role and no one batted an eyelid. When Shah …
Global food systems are not meeting the world's dietary needs. About one billion people are hungry, while two billion people are overweight. India, for example, is experiencing rises in both: since 1995 an additional 65 million people are malnourished, and one in five adults is now overweight. This coexistence of …
In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Andrew Cheyne and colleagues compare soda companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns - which are designed to bolster the image and popularity of their products and to prevent regulation - with the tobacco industry's CSR campaigning. …
Maharashtra is one of the highest users of tobacco in the country with 43 per cent adult males and 19 per cent adult females addicted to it. The findings were published in the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in Maharashtra released here on Friday. According to the survey, the average age …
AHMEDABAD: Sale of gutka and pan masala is rampant in plastic sachets, even though the Supreme Court has levied a ban on them since March 1last year. Strings of pan masala and gutka sachets of numerous brands continue to hand in shops across the city, even as shopkeepers feign ignorance. …
In a bid to curb the sale of tobacco around educational institutions, the Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Police chief to set a precedent and consider making all police stations tobacco-free. A division bench of Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said such measures would strengthen …
Maharashtra government is contemplating a ban on gutka and pan masala products, Deputy Chief Minister and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar said here today. "It does not matter even if we face a loss of Rs 100 crore in tax from gutka and pan masala. Compromising with the lives of …
In an effort to check cancer and lung diseases, the Maharashtra Government will soon come out with a legislation to ban the sale of gutka and other tobacco mixed masalas in the State. Announcing this at the NCP’s inaugural women wing convention here on Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar …
Such advertisements are everywhere, argues Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Responding to a letter issued by an anti-tobacco advocacy group on depiction of indirect tobacco advertisements at various metro stations, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has said such advertisements are everywhere and “the rules cannot be different for the metro”.“We do …
For making immense progress with the State's anti-tobacco campaign, the World Health Organisation has awarded Himachal Pradesh the WHO South East Asia Regional Office Award 2012. Disclosing this, an official spokesman said the State has achieved the target of making all district headquarters in the State smoke-free. The State is …
“Tobacco industry interference”, this year’s theme for the World No-Tobacco Day (May 31), brought with it a strong reminder to India to evolve mechanisms that would ensure complete insulation of its public health policy from any possible interference of the tobacco industry. Evidence is now growing to show that the …
World No Tobacco Day was observed on Thursday. The focus this year was on addressing interference by the tobacco industry. According to World Health Organisation, the industry has been using intimidating tactics to counter the curb on use of tobacco. One gets a good understanding of tobacco influence and the …
More than 80 percent of Shanghai residents want smoking banned in restaurants and entertainment areas, a survey showed, reflecting a growing awareness of health issues in China, the world's top consumer of tobacco. Around a quarter of China's 1.3 billion people are smokers, or about as many people as there …
JAIPUR: Jhunjhunu on Thursday earned the distinction of being the first smoke-free district in the state on World No Tobacco Day. Now, if any person is caught smoking at public places in Jhunjhunu, he or she would be challaned. The public places include railway station, bus stands, banks, government offices, …
The World No Tobacco Day was observed in The University of Faisalabad on Friday. During his key note address, Dr Zahid Masood, the Head of Department of Community Medicine, University Medical & Dental College, told the audience that tobacco was responsible for over 80,000 deaths in Pakistan. Pakistan consumes Rs450 …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the World No Tobacco Day was observed all across on Thursday, there are efforts to achieve the goal of making Cuttack and Khurda districts smoke-free. Both the districts are among the select few in the country to have been included under the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP). …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tobacco is being used in a wide variety of ways in India, either as smokeless tobacco as chewing pan, pan masala or gutka, and ‘mishri’ (a powdered tobacco rubbed on the gums as toothpaste) or as tobacco smoke such as cigarettes, beedi, cigars etc. Tobacco consumption accounts for half …
