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 ministries of health and environment recognising the increasing risk of asthma in the country has launched a joint asthma control programme. The programme was launched at a ceremony held here Tuesday on the occasion of the World Asthma Day organised by the ministries and the Allergy and Asthma Institute, …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: The civil society alliance for tobacco control in India has voiced concern over the fact that the Group of Ministers mostly comprising prominent candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections has disregarded all scientific evidence and undermined an international treaty to derail an important public health …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for the records of a meeting of Group of Ministers on the issue of pictorial health warnings on cigarette and beedi packs to examine the charge of former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss that the minutes of the meeting were changed to benefit …
The Himachal Pradesh Government is contemplating to empower "Men in Uniform" and other in-line departmental officers to compound the offences under Control of Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003. The Government was determined to rid the State of the "tobacco epidemic" and make the State smoke-free, Chief Secretary Asha Swaroop said …
Social groups voiced their concern over the delay in pictorial representation of health warnings on all tobacco products. Many of them had claimed that the absence of any Union Health Minister had led to a crisis as the Cabinet had buckled under the pressure of tobacco manufacturers. The Advocacy Forum …
Smoking causes lung cancer and is implicated in a dozen other cancers, but scientists have generally dismissed its importance in breast cancer, saying it plays little role, if any. In a report issued on Thursday, the panel asserted that evidence from new studies strongly suggests that smoking increases the risk …
Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhul Haque yesterday said around 57,000 people die every year due to tobacco-related diseases in the country, while around 382,000 people are becoming physically or mentally disabled as a result of tobacco use. The minister said this while inaugurating a four-day regional workshop titled …
Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: How much nicotine and tar does your cigarette actually contain? You will know by the end of this year. The health ministry has cleared setting up of one apex state-of-the-art tobacco research lab (which will the first of its kind in South Asia) and …
Noted expert on tobacco control, Dr Prakash C Gupta today focused on tobacco consumption in the Indian context and underlined the need for a rethink in control strategies. Delivering the Dr KC Borooah Foundation day oration at the Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute, Gupta remarked that the tobacco problem in …
Media can be a powerful social tool to do this CHENNAI: Tobacco control should be made a part of disease-control activities in order for it to succeed, V.Shanta, chairman, Cancer Institute (WIA), said. The strategy must have an end goal with a time frame in which to achieve it. For …
NEW DELHI: Youth activists from across the globe have conveyed their support for depiction of pictorial warnings on tobacco product packages to governments of various countries. An appeal signed by 140 of them was presented to the Union Health and Family Minister here recently. The group, brought together by Delhi-based …
