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 city's Ganesh puja organisers will have to ensure that no one smokes or consumes tobacco inside their marquees during the 10-day festival this year, officials said on Tuesday. The Mumbai civic corporation, in association NGO ACT-India, Tuesday included the regulations of the national tobacco control law- the Control of …
Whereas, it is expedient to make legal provision to reduce, control and regulate the import, production, sales and distribution and consumption of tobacco products as smoking and tobacco consumption are very injurious to human health and they also have negative impact on activity of society, economy and culture; and Whereas, …
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the federal government was not liable for damages from health-related lawsuits against tobacco companies, possibly amounting to many billions of dollars. The decision was a major defeat for the tobacco industry, which faces suits from several provinces seeking to recoup health care costs. The …
If the Union health ministry has its way, principals, teachers and municipal officers could soon get the authority to fine people selling tobacco products to minors, To ensure proper implementation of ban on smoking in public places, the ministry has proposed to authorise more people — teachers, education inspectors, drug …
Tobacco use is rising in Pakistan, with about 30.7 per cent of men estimated to be smokers, while 100,000 people die from tobacco-related causes annually, said doctors at a press conference on Thursday. According to them, smoking has been forbidden in various schools of thoughts in Islam across the world. …
The Chief Ministers of 11 States have pledged their support to fight the growing menace of tobacco products like gutka and khaini . The month-long activity that started in May included tobacco abuse victims along with oncologists meeting their respective Chief Ministers and urging them to protect the people of …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Assembly on Tuesday that he would write to all school headmasters seeking their support for a government drive to free school neighbourhoods from pan masala and other tobacco products. Responding to a calling attention moved by M.P. Abdussamad Samadani (IUML), the Chief Minister said …
Add yet another item to the long list of damaging effects of secondhand smoke: hearing loss in teenagers. Researchers, writing in the July issue of The Archives of Otolaryngology
The first-ever comprehensive systematic review of all studies over the past 50 years has established clearly that maternal smoking causes a range of serious birth defects including heart defects, missing/deformed limbs, clubfoot, gastrointestinal disorders, and facial disorders (for example, of the eyes and cleft lip/palate). The review dispels any uncertainty …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, tobacco chewing is on the rise. It has increased by 0.1% as compared to smoking. In the state, around 18.9% of the total population chews tobacco while 18.8% population smokes. The figures were released by the World Health Organization last week. Asthma and tobacco specialist Dr Virendra …
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested that the tobacco epidemic is likely to kill nearly six million people this year. As per the report, while more than five million of them will be users or ex-users of smoked and smokeless tobacco, more than 600,000 will …
India has played a key role in drawing up the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that was initiated by the World Health Organisation and the country has ratified it. Ironically, the government’s Indian Tobacco Board is expected to promote Indian varieties of tobacco and the development of the tobacco industry. …
GUWAHATI: Tobacco consumption poses serious health hazards. The District Tobacco Control Cell is waging a war against tobacco use. With the objective of creating awareness among people, the District Tobacco Control Cell had organized an orientation programme on tobacco control and its implementation recently, in collaboration with the Kaliram Barua …
This report is the third in a series of WHO reports on the status of global tobacco control policy implementation. All data on the level of countries’ achievement for the six MPOWER measures have been updated through 2010, and additional data have been collected on warning the public about the …
The impacts of tobacco cultivation on traditional agro-practices and knowledge, food security, agro-biodiversity and socio-economic conditions of a remote hilly tribal community of Bangladesh were investigated. Sixty per cent households were found practicing shifting cultivation compared with 10 yrs back changing local food availability. Local crop varieties were being lost …
The impacts of tobacco cultivation on traditional agro-practices and knowledge, food security, agro-biodiversity and socio-economic conditions of a remote hilly tribal community of Bangladesh were investigated. Sixty per cent households were found practicing shifting cultivation compared with 10 yrs back changing local food availability. Local crop varieties were being lost …
