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 health ministry has proposed that the finance ministry should introduce health tax in the forthcoming budget to control tobacco use. A ministry official said that the
With 40 per cent health related problems caused by tobacco consumption in the country, the worried Union Health Ministry is seeking to introduce the tobacco cessation and control programme as part of the MBBS curriculum. The Ministry has written to the Medical Council of India (MCI) for the first time …
Cracking whip against errant hookah parlours in the city, Bombay high court today directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to incorporate the rules under `Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act' (COTPA) in the license agreements. With this, the BMC will have the power to revoke the license if a hookah …
An international Deloitte report, commissioned by British American Tobacco, reveals that increasing the size of health warnings on packs and introducing graphic warnings has not directly reduced tobacco consumption – and calls into question whether plain packaging will achieve government health objectives. http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3mnfen.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/DO8GHFEN/$FILE/medMD8GHFFW.pdf?openelement
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has adverse effects on the health of asthmatics, however the harmful consequences of ETS in relation to asthma severity are unknown. In a multicenter study of severe asthma, we assessed the impact of ETS exposure on morbidity, health care utilization and lung functions; and activity of …
MUMBAI: The civic administration has issued showcause notices to nine restaurants and eateries in Borivli for serving hookahs in non-smoking zones. Civic officials said that these restaurants violated not only the Shop and Establishment Act, which does not permit them to serve hookahs, but also flouted the Tobacco Control Act …
Directors of 17 regional cancer treatment centres in India, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have recently written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ban smokeless tobacco products like gutkha. India has the highest number of oral cancer patients in the world with 75, 000 to 80,000 cases reported …
Tobacco is a silent killer and the single largest cause of preventable disease including cancer, heart attacks, chronic obstructive lung disease and asthma. According to World Health Organisation, tobacco killed 100 million people in the 20th Century and will kill a billion people (ten times more) in the 21st. Deaths …
Cancer patients, who are victims of oral tobacco abuse, have written to social activist Anna Hazare seeking his intervention to pressurise the Union Government to hasten the implementation of pictorial warnings on tobacco products to ensure that youngsters don't fall prey to them.
EXPERTS have called for a complete ban on smokeless tobacco products or at least an increase in tax to bring down consumption. Many such recommendations made at a two-day national consultation that ends on Tuesday will be sent to the government. According to a recent survey, khaini is the most …
Smokeless tobacco products being marketed in India contain 3095 chemical components with serious implications for human health. About 28 of these components are proven carcinogens, areca nut the most commonly used of all. What
This study explores the link between tobacco use and poverty, as well as the broader relationship between income, tobacco use, and tobacco-related health consequences, using a meta-analysis of existing research literature. The study presents a solid base to support its conclusions of an inverse relationship between income level and tobacco …
The number of people fined by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) for smoking in public places shot to three times between 2007 and 2010, with more than 16,000 people being prosecuted over last year itself. Vendors prosecuted for selling tobacco products in restricted areas also grew three times during …
New Delhi: Tobacco usage by students not only creates health hazards but also develops criminal instincts in them. The Delhi high court said this on Wednesday, asking all educational institutions in the capital to check the sale of tobacco in their vicinity. The division bench of chief justice Dipak Misra …
Sahpuria, a village on the north west outskirts of the Jorhat town, is all set to bag the title as the first tobacco free village in the entire north eastern region of India. As many as 500 villagers took part in an oath taking ceremony in which they vowed to …
Not only urbanites but tribals from far Nicobar Islands are also falling prey to lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure and obesity. A study published in the latest edition of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) is all set to crack down on sale of nonsmoking tobacco, available in plastic sachets. A ban has been imposed on it as per the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011. While both wholesale and retail traders have complied with the …
Doctors from the Tata Memorial Hospital took 50 cancer patients from the city to meet opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, in Delhi last week. It was for enforcing the new rule of pictorial warning on tobacco products, which came into effect on May 31, 2009. Swaraj called …
