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 …
MUMBAI: Bloomberg Philanthropies announced four recipients of the 2009 Bloomberg Awards for Global Tobacco Control at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health held here on Monday. The awards were given to programmer manager, Environmental Rights Action and Friends of The Earth Nigeria, Akinbode Oluwafemi; Mexico City
MUMBAI: The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCOTH) was inaugurated by Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on Sunday. Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who addressed the gathering said that despite the efforts of the government and many non-governmental …
The Tobacco March 8: The Tobacco Board of India has formulated a strategy to buy back the licences of tobacco growers in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, in compliance with World Health Organisation (WHO
March 7: Smoke is filling up the air and India is one of the major contributors to it. Tobacco, which is estimated to kill one billion people by the end of this century, has over half a billion consumers in India and China alone. These are some of the findings …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo According to WHO reports, young adolescents have been shown to lose the elasticity of their arteries if they are passive smokers, setting the stage for early heart attacks in adulthood
A smoking law was passed by the Spanish Parliament in December 2005 and was enforced by 1 January 2006. The law bans smoking in all indoor workplaces but only in some hospitality venues, because owners are allowed to establish a smoking zone (venues > 100 m2) or to allow smoking …
BY ROD MCGUIRK CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA Australian officials said on Friday that they want to fast-track rules making cigarettes less likely to ignite fires as part of the government
The High Court has suspended its recent ban on the manufacture, sale and marketing of Manikchand gutka by a week. A division bench comprising Chief Justice P D Dinakaran and Justice V G Sabhahit suspended the ban after Dhariwal Industries filed an interlocutory application (IA) requesting the court to hear …
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Jan. 21: Taking forward its mission against tobacco products, Union health ministry is now working on providing alternative crops to those involved in tobacco crops. For this, the ministry has earmarked Rs 2.17 crores for a pilot project to find out the feasibility and potentiality …
Prof. Fonseka By Ifham Nizam "In Sri Lanka tobacco kills about 20,000 people a year. Alcohol consumption too has caused the same number of deaths yearly. Nearly 11,000 prosecutions have been conducted with regard to the violation of the Tobacco and Alcohol Act during the year 2007 and the offenders …
Beedi is prepared in unorganized sectors and the biddi binders are mostly perform the whole procedure at their home. Beedi is smoked, like the cigarette though there are a lot of differences. Beedi is wrapped by kendu leaves, tobacco is less roasted and lenght is shorter compared to cigarettes. The …
Those who believe that their children are safe from the harmful effects of tobacco because they always smoke outside their homes, or inside only when kids are away, need to think about again. A new study has shown that tobacco smoke contamination lingers even after a cigarette has been extinguished. …
Spreading awareness: (From left) S. Elango, Director - Public Health, Government of Tamil Nadu; Dinesh Bhatnagar, Additional Director-General of Health Services, Government of India; V. Shantha, Chairman, Cancer Institute, Adyar, and Vineet Gill Munish, NPO, WHO India, at the regional advocacy workshop (southern region) on
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: While the sale of cigarettes and beedis has fallen by about 25 per cent since implementation of the ban on smoking at public places, the sale of other tobacco products has shot up by nearly 150 per cent in metros, says a new survey. According to …
NEW DELHI: Reviewing rules, the Union Health Ministry has now made it permissible to display specified health warnings just on retail packages of tobacco products. Following a representation from industry federations, the Ministry has clarified that the warnings need not be displayed on packages such as gunny bags. The rules …
