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 …
Double Bonanza: Booster Shot For Health By Both Union And State Govts CM Focuses On Health, Education & Environment New Delhi: Over the last couple of years, the Delhi government
- More than 200 families take community oath to kick the killer habit Jorhat, March 21: If the surest way of sticking to a resolution is to get your friends and family involved, then villagers of Shahpuriagaon have gone the whole hog and even tapped their neighbours
The Union environment ministry, it seems, is not serious about dealing with plastic waste. While notifying the plastic waste management rules on February 7, it banned use of plastic in only gutkha, paan masala and tobacco sachets. No other form of plastic packaging has been banned by the Plastic Waste …
Cigarettes and other tobacco products will need to be kept out of sight in large stores and supermarkets by 2012 and in small shops by 2015 London, March 9: All shops in England will be banned from openly displaying tobacco products by April 2015 as part of a government package …
New Delhi:There has been no let-up in the sales of gutkha and pan masala in plastic sachets despite a Supreme Court order banning non-biodegradable sachets from March 1. Strings of pan masala and gutkha sachets of numerous brands continue to hang in shops across the capital. Even as shopkeepers claimed …
In a move to send a strong message, the health department of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued show-cause notices to its five ward medical officers (WMOs) for inaction during the anti-tobacco week in January this year. The WMOs are from the ward offices of Ghole Road, Kothrud, Ahmednagar Road, …
Projections of the incidence of cancer serve several purposes. These range from making investment decisions on cancer treatment facilities and planning manpower requirements, to formulation and evaluation of policies for control of cancer. Different statistical methods can be used for such projections. In recent years, these have been translated to …
This publication is the first to focus on the specific needs and challenges of girls and women at risk of, or living with, NCDs. It aims to draw attention to NCDs as a priority for women’s health and development, stimulate policy dialogue on the particular issues related to girls and …
Most readers might find it difficult to credit what follows. This is a story of how bilateral and multilateral investment treaties are being used to satisfy corporate greed, how large corporations, even those in the unsavoury business of selling cigarettes, can sue countries for passing public health laws intended to …
Stronger, more revulsive images, it is hoped, will discourage tobacco use even more In January, the Supreme Court ordered that all cigarette packets and tobacco products must carry pictorial warnings that are stronger than the current ones. They will also bear the slogan:
Govt wants large cigarette cos to admit that they lied to public about the dangers of smoking AP WASHINGTON The Justice Department wants the largest cigarette manufacturers to admit that they lied to the public about the dangers of smoking, forcing the industry to set up and pay for an …
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the State government and the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to file within four weeks compliance reports on implementation of the Control of Tobacco Products Act, 2003, (COTPA) in the schools and colleges in the City. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice J S …
Leaders in oncology from across the country have for the first time come together to join the war against smokeless tobacco, believed to be behind 96% of oral cancer cases in India. The heads of 17 regional cancer centres, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have urged Prime Minister Manmohan …
In December, Court Had Banned Use Of Plastic In Sachets; Consumers Now Have To Pay More. THE cost of a single-use packet of gutka, pan masala and tobacco can be expected to increase appreciably from the . 1 that it now costs, as the industry will no longer be able …
LUCKNOW: Tobacco is not only associated with cancers. It's bad effect reflects other parts of the body too. Addiction to nicotine for instance can alter the way brain works, while other chemicals can take sheen away from your skin. Facts on cancer like this and more were released on the …
After hearing that its order on banning the sale of tobacco products within a radius of 100 yards of any educational schools or colleges in the city has not been properly implemented yet, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Delhi police commissioner to initiate a departmental inquiry against …
