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 …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya, with 32 per cent tobacco users, stands fifth on the list of top tobacco-consuming states in the country where 2500 people die due to tobacco consumption everyday. As per official records, most northeastern states are among the highest tobacco-consuming states with Mizoram leading the tally with 61 per …
The Northeastern States are amongst the top consumers of tobacco products in the country with Mizoram earning the dubious distinction of having the largest number of tobacco product consumers in India. Sixty-one per cent of the population in Mizoram uses some form of tobacco products. In India, 57 per cent …
Health insurance companies in the UK, US and Canada own almost US $4.5 billion worth tobacco stocks, a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed. But smokers are handed the short end of the bargain. The companies usually charge a higher premium from smokers for insurance …
Some 57,000 people die of the diseases caused by tobacco products in the country every year. Besides, some 3.82 lakh people get maimed due to tobacco related diseases per year, said speakers at a view exchange meeting on 'Role of media for implementation of Tobacco Control Act'. Addressing the meeting …
The warning "Sale of cigarettes or other tobacco products to a person below 18 is strictly prohibited" has failed to deter minors from using these due to their ubiquitous availability. Also, vendors are guilty of "indirectly" encouraging the adolescents as they have failed to put up the warning notice as …
The European Commission on Tuesday called on all European Union member states to install laws to protect their citizens from exposure to tobacco smoke by 2012. The EU member states are asked to adopt and implement laws to fully protect their citizens from exposure to tobacco smoke in enclosed public …
Cardiovascular risk factors start early, track through the young age and manifest in middle age in most societies. The authors conducted epidemiological studies to determine prevalence and age-specific trends in cardiovascular risk factors among adolescent and young urban Asian Indians.
President Barack Obama, citing his own struggle to give up smoking, signed into law a bill giving the U.S. government broad regulatory power for the first time over cigarettes and other tobacco products. Mr. Obama said Monday that the law "would curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the cusp of gaining power for the first time to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products. Last week, the U.S. Senate followed the lead of the House of Representatives, voting 79
British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) launched its Afforestation Programme 2009 at Agargaon in the city yesterday as part of its corporate social responsibility. BATB's afforestation drive is the largest by any private sector entity in the country. Chairman of the company Golam Mainuddin said this year BATB will distribute a …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan Also do not conform to the rules for size, says NGO NEW DELHI: With pictorial health warnings on tobacco products finally coming into effect after being deferred and diluted several times since the first notification in July 2006, leading
Ramya Kannan CHENNAI: The ban on smoking in public places has had an effect on the sale of tobacco products in Tamil Nadu, if one were to go by what retailers, who cover the last-mile sales, say. In a survey conducted by the Directorate of Public Health immediately after the …
CHANDIGARH: As many as 666 people have been fined for smoking at public places in Haryana since the imposition of ban on smoking at public places on October 2 last and Rs. 45,170 had been recovered from them. In a message issued here on the eve of World No-Tobacco Day, …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said smokers have a 70 percent higher death rate than non-smokers. According to WHO, there are approximately 1.1 billion regular smokers in the world, which is one-third of the population aged 15 years and above. According to the figures, roughly 47 percent of men …
