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 …
Legislation that would ban logos from appearing on cigarette packages in Australia is drawing the ire of business lobbying groups and even members of the United States Congress, who warn that the Australian government could be in breach of its international trade obligations. The legislation would require that tobacco products …
On a vote of 78 to 66, the British House of Commons agreed Wednesday to consider outlawing smoking in private vehicles carrying children in an effort to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke. The vote ordered the government to draft a ban.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with nine new health warnings for cigarette packs, to be introduced from September 2012. Various countries already have such warnings, and some of them attribute reduced tobacco use to these. India has faced hurdles introducing visuals more graphic than those …
Bastar Adivasis Get A Pittance; Reds, Officials Make Money In Tandem Raipur: In inky blue darkness, Bargu and Sunita stir their children out of slumber and drag them to the forest. As dawn breaks, the family gets down to work, plucking leaves from short bushes, short enough for even four-year-old …
The Tobacco Board has asked traders to procure more tobacco at higher prices to save farmers in Andhra Pradesh. Farmers in the state launched an agitation this month, seeking higher prices for the produce. This has led to the suspension of trade on six auction platforms in Prakasam district.
India is going all out to monitor global ban on drugs. The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has ordered the setting up of a new special cell in the Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) that will monitor the fate of drugs being sold both abroad and back home. …
Kullu will be the next district in Himachal Pradesh after Shimla to become smoke-free. Deputy Commissioner BM Nanta, while presiding over a workshop here today, revealed that directions had been issued to all educational institutions, government and private offices to strictly follow the notification of no-smoking in the public areas. …
A total ban on smoking in public will come into force soon, the Health Ministry said. The spokesperson for the Ministry said National Tobacco and Alcohol Act had been sent to the Attorney General for amendment to make smoking in public illegal. Minister Maithripala Sirisena, attending the National programme on …
Agartala, May 30: Tripura has emerged as third highest tobacco consuming state in the country after Mizoram and Nagaland, Dr Goutam Majumder, Superintendent of Regional Cancer Centre said here yesterday. He said despite imposition of ban on smoking in public places, about 55.9 per cent of people in Tripura had …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea against gutka and pan masala manufacturing companies for allegedly using plastic material in sachets in violation of its order banning use of such materials. The application, filed by an advocate alleged almost all the companies
CHENNAI: The best way to bid adieu to tobacco is perhaps to ensure that those who give it up are rewarded. At Abirami Mall, five volunteers who offered to quit smoking on Sunday received free entry to one of its popular entertainment stalls. The mall's executive director Nallammai Ramanathan said …
Ahead of the World No Tobacco Day to be observed tomorrow Ahead of the World No Tobacco Day to be observed on May 31, several top-notch schools in the Capital have declared themselves
CHENNAI: Ten slum colonies in the city, including the one at Ambedkar Nagar, will be declared smoke free by the year-end. Prasanna Kannan, WHO consultant, speaking to Express, said,
According to statistics of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA) smoking kills 50 to 60 persons everyday and 15,000-20,000 persons annually in Sri Lanka, NATA Chairman Prof. Carlo Fonseka said, participating in a workshop held yesterday at the Information Department. Prof. Carlo Fonseka These statistics show that 4,101 …
More than two decades after the gas leak in Bhopal, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported a higher incidence of cancer in affected areas
The latest Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, announced by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in February came under sharp focus at a meeting of plastic manufacturers, social activists and civic officials held in the city on Wednesday. The new rule states that plastic bags less than …
New Delhi: Unhappy over the tardy progress in enforcing the ban on sale of tobacco products near schools and hospitals, Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the city government and Delhi Police to implement its directions. A division bench rejected the affidavit filed by the police claiming it had launched …
In probably the first such large-scale study of its kind, Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, in collaboration with the ministry of health proved that bidis and other forms of tobacco (supari, gutkha, among others) are more harmful than cigarettes. The study had a follow-up period of 5.5 years with as …
Centre, Makers Get Two Days To File Reply New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Union government and pesticide manufacturers two days to present cogent grounds to convince it against slapping an interim countrywide ban on the production of the widely used toxic pest killer endosulfan. An SC bench …
