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 latest Global Youth Tobacco Survey (2009) by the World Health Organisation (WHO), in consultation with the Government of India, suggests that more than 50 per cent of the people who bought cigarettes from stores were not refused despite the country
NEW DELHI: Members of civil society and health experts have expressed concern over the delay in implementation of the notification for new pictorial health warnings for all tobacco products which was to be brought in next month by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
Liffy Thomas and R. Sujatha NGOs and State government have played a pivotal role in taking home the message about ills of using tobacco Smoke free: Several buildings are becoming
NEW DELHI: The depiction of new and more stringent pictorial warnings on tobacco products has been deferred by six months to December 1 from the earlier scheduled date of June 1. A notification issued here earlier this week by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that while the …
The High Court on Thursday ordered issue of notices to Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and Bescom over a closure notice issued to a tobacco company. Ma Sharada Tobacco Private Limited and Pan Parag Limited had approached the High Court stating that KSPCB had sent them a closure notice …
Serum cotinine levels are a reliable marker of tobacco use. Few studies have validated questionnaires assessing smoking and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) against serum levels. We undertook such a study in industrial workers in India.
NEW DELHI The tobacco industry is not only hazardous to society but it also exploits its workers by paying them meagre wages, especially women and children. The Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), on the basis of a study in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, released a report …
Gutka worth Rs 28 lakh seized PANJIM, APRIL 19 Foods and Drugs Administration (FDA) has booked around 40 cases and seized gutka worth Rs 28 lakh in the last four-and-a-half years. This was part of the efforts to ban sale of tobacco products and make Goa Smoke Free. At a …
By 2020 tobacco will be responsible for 13 per cent of all deaths in India and millions of people are likely to die prematurely due to smoking, reveals a latest study. Funded by the Bloomberg Global initiative to reduce tobacco, the study
Ban Applicable In Special Economic Zones Too THE government on Thursday banned FDI in cigarette manufacturing, shutting the doors permanently on foreign companies such as Japan Tobacco, BAT and the Altria Group. The decision leaves the cigarette market wide open for Indian manufacturers such as ITC, which has about three-fourths …
April 8: In India, with an estimated 12 crore smokers, only two per cent manage to quit the tobacco habit, as compared to 40 per cent in the United States and Europe. Though the age of smoking initiation is higher in Indians, the quitting habit is rare. According to a …
Andhra Pradesh tobacco farmers have written to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi asking her to facilitate the banning of foreign direct investment (FDI) in cigarette manufacturing. With one letter from the commerce ministry already having been presented before the Cabinet in support of the ban, the ministry has been directed to …
The objective of this study was to investigate the poorly understood relationship between the process of urbanization and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through the application of a quantitative measure of urbanicity.
Strict measures are required to stop the sale of highly carcinogenic substances writes FREDDY DIAS The consumption of paan masala and gutka (flavoured mixtures of
The level of 210Po in eight brands of cigarettes and four brands of bidis popular in and around Nagercoil town was determined to evaluate the annual effective dose. The 210Po activity in a full cigarette ranged from 32.8
