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 …
About 5.4 million people die every year across the globe due to tobacco consumption and the number will go over 8 million by 2030 if immediate steps are not taken, the World Health Organisation (WHO) report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 said yesterday. At the launching ceremony of the …
The explosion of cardiovascular disease in India may not only be bad for the country's health, it could also be bad for its economy. If the surge continues, it could decrease India's productivity and overwhelm its already struggling public-health system, say experts.
Japan Tobacco has already had its fair share of bad news this year. But the world's third-largest cigarette company, with brands such as Camel and Benson and Hedges, is likely to face further turbulence in the months ahead. The beleaguered JT began the year inauspiciously with a tainted food scare, …
When the tobacco industry was feeling the heat from scientists who showed that smoking caused cancer, it took decisive action. It engaged in a decades-long public relations campaign to undermine the medical research and discredit the scientists. The aim was not to prove tobacco harmless but to cast doubt on …
Central Tobacco Research Institute, an organization of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), is an apex research body for tobacco in India. Multi disciplinary programmes of CTRI have helped in evolving high yielding cultivars of tobacco, quality up gradation thereby improving the farmers' economics & enhancing tobacco exports.
Hyderabad July 31: The government as well as health experts are deeply concerned about young people of the country getting addicted to smoking. Recent research says that those who start sm king at a young age find it very difficult to quit the habit at a later stage. Smoking among …
POLICY ALLOWS 100% FDI, BUT NEW PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN CITING HEALTH CONCERNS Partha Ghosh NEW DELHI JAPAN Tobacco International's recent move to raise stake in its Indian subsidiary, JTI India, has lit up an old debate related to foreign direct investment in the tobacco or cigarette manufacturing business. …
Sarah Boseley Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Wednesday that they were joining Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, in a $500m campaign against smoking in the developing world. As smoking has become less acceptable and profitable in the rich world, tobacco companies have expanded in countries where there …
The Delhi University (DU) will soon get a rehabilitation centre to help students quit smoking and drinking, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a programme on "smoking-free campus" organised by the students' union organisation. "The Delhi University is leading the anti-tobacco programme and I …
Smoking in Delhi University's North Campus will now come for a price. Students found puffing away will be challaned anywhere between Rs 150 and Rs 500 by officials from the Delhi Police and Delhi government's anti-tobacco cell. The smoke-free campus campaign, originally kicked off by Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) …
Merely passing laws to prohibit smoking in the public places won't do any good to the society unless its strict implementation is not ensured by the government. This was opined by Dr Bhaben Choudhury, chief consultant of the newly started Tobacco Cessation Clinic of Sanjivani Hospital at Maligaon here. Dr …
The problem of easy availability and increasing use of smokeless tobacco products by young people of South Asian origin in the UK needs to be urgently addressed. Legislation exists, but is often flouted.
The state government has girded up its loin to save the next generation from ill-effects of tobacco on their health. Preparations are being made to ensure strict action in this regards in all the schools be they private or government ones. A team comprising teachers and students would be formed …
Deepsikha Cancer Care Foundation, an NGO working exclusively for cancer patients, has taken the initiative to make the common masses aware about the abuse of tobacco and its harmful effects. With this aim in view, it has opened its first branch of stop tobacco centre in the Deomornoi community health …
Enough body of evidence exists linking tobacco use with life-threatening diseases and disabilities- Bobby Ramakant Despite of the India's legally-binding Cigarette and Other tobacco products Act (2003) and repeated appeals of India's Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss to bollywood film-stars to refrain from on-screen smoking, there seems …
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80%, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency said. The review of 11 studies worldwide showed people who chewed tobacco and used snuff also had a 60% higher risk of …
MORE youngsters fall prey to tobacco abuse without realising that smoking contributes to the rise in diseases such as cancer, said State Health and Family Welfare Minister M R K Panneerselvam here on Tuesday. The minister was inaugurating a workshop on
