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 …
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss couldn't have given a better birthday gift to the father of the nation. On October 2, the complete ban on smoking in public places will come into effect under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, …
Suvi Dogra / New Delhi October 4, 2008, 0:24 IST Hit by the recent government diktats on banning smoking in public places, cigarette manufacturing firms are putting up a brave front and are gearing up to cope with the revenue loss. While companies like Godfrey Phillips have put up
AHMEDABAD: If you are still taking the ban on smoking in public places lightly, sample this: Every year, over 16,000 people, especially youngsters, a re diagnosed with oral and lung cancer caused by tobacco in Gujarat. "Over 40,000 people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the state. Of these, …
BS Reporters / Chennai/kolkata/mumbai/new Delhi October 3, 2008, 0:55 IST It was just another day for smokers as well as vendors as the new nationwide law that kicked in prohibiting smoking in public places. Though most state governments said they were serious about implementing the new rule, people in cities …
Jaipur, October 2 Traditional hookah and chillum are more injurious to health than cigarette, a study has said. The study underlines that the old mode of smoking is much more toxic than cigarette smoke as carbon monoxide (CO) level is higher in it, the study conducted by a group of …
New Delhi: For long a style statement for many, lighting up in front of your friends or peers will not be such a good idea any more with the ban on smoking in public places coming into force on Thursday. A pet project of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, the …
NEW DELHI: Day One of the ban on smoking at public spaces turned out to be a relatively easy affair for the implementing agencies like the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Northern Railway. For it was a public holiday because of Gandhi Jayanti. While the …
Mayans Considered It A Divine Plant And Used It For Ritualistic Purposes When did people start smoking tobacco? Tobacco was smoked in the Americas long before its organized cultivation began somewhere around 5000 to 3000 BC. Tobacco use was ceremonial and ritualistic for the natives with the leaf not only …
Even though the ITC and the Hotel and Restaurant Association have challenged the Indian smoke-free law, to come into effect from October 2, a survey has shown that a majority of Indians are in favour of the law. Conducted between August 9 and 24 in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata …
CHENNAI: From October 2, the ban on smoking in public places will be implemented stringently in Tamil Nadu, Health Secretary V.K. Subburaj has said. Students will have to act as ambassadors, as they will be most effective in checking the smoking habit. Participating in a function to launch the Tobacco …
The consumption of tobacco and tobacco related products claims 27,000 lives in Sri Lanka while 5.4 million persons die of using tobacco related products in the World every year, Gallage Punyawardana of Swarna Hansa Foundation said yesterday. He said the death toll is projected to rise to eight million by …
The repeated delay, at times weakening, and postponing the implementation of public health policies in India, particularly the provisions of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003, mustn't occur again. With two weeks to go before India enforces ban on smoking in public places from 2 October 2008, and …
NEW DELHI: Demanding more funds to give a fillip to the National Tobacco Control Programme, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has suggested that additional funds collected through taxes on tobacco products be transferred to it. Addressing a press conference here after inaugurating a
61st meeting of the WHO regional committee for South-East Asia now on in Delhi NEW DELHI: Health Ministers from South-East Asian countries and World Health Organisation experts have called for stricter laws, improved implementation of these laws and increased taxes to help reduce tobacco abuse in the region. They are …
Aarti Dhar Right now tobacco epidemic is clustered in the poorest of the poor and this applies to India also, says Douglas Bettcher, Director, Tobacco Free Initiative. Douglas Bettcher
Aizawl, Sept 7: Mizoram tops the list of tobacco users with about 77 per cent of the population using tobacco in one form or the other. Students in Mizoram are also found to be heavy users of tobacco as about 54 per cent of them have been said to be …
M Govinda Rao / New Delhi September 02, 2008, 0:09 IST The most important thing is to ban all forms of tobacco consumption in public places. By now, it is well established that tobacco is the single-most important contributor to non-communicable diseases in India. India has the second-largest number of …
Having been deferred for more than a year now, pictorial warnings on the packaging of tobacco products will finally be introduced on November 30. The Union Health Ministry has been trying to implement this visual
