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 country's largest organization of doctors Tuesday refused to challenge a controversial tobacco bill that would ban many flavor additives in cigarettes sold in the United States but exempt menthol flavoring. Under a bill before Congress that gives control of tobacco products to the Food and Drug Administration, flavor additives …
The Malawian government has suspended domestic tobacco sales in major markets following a price dispute between growers and merchants. In early April, tobacco prices reached the highest us $11 per kg and then dropped. This fluctuating price could undermine Malawi's economic targets, said the finance minister. Tobacco accounts for 15 …
Donald G. Mcneil Jr. As the world's population ages, gets richer, smokes more, eats more and drives more, non-communicable diseases will become bigger killers than infectious ones over the next 20 years, the World Health Organisation is reporting. The report, World Health Statistics 2008, shows that AIDS, tuberculosis, neonatal tetanus …
With an aim to guide the youth and community leaders against the harmful effect of tobacco, the Centre for Adult, Continuing Education and Extension (CACEE), Panjab University, observed "No Tobacco Day', on Tuesday. Around 40 community leaders attended the programme. Programme in-charge Renu Gandhi said that to ensure good health, …
Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday. In a statement marking World No Tobacco Day on Saturday, WHO said the tobacco industry is taking advantage of young people's …
The WHO and the Union health ministry will launch a pilot project in Cooch Behar and Murshidabad districts of Bengal as part of their nationwide programme to curb the use of tobacco. The plan under the National Tobacco Control Programme involves the setting up of counselling centres at the district …
India and other countries in the world need to scale up the cost-effective, proven and WHO recommended strategies to reduce the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use. The World Health Statistics Report (2008) of WHO released 10 days before this year's World No Tobacco Day (31 May) ups the …
On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, the Northeast Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (NESPYM) today urged the State Government to take effective steps towards banning cigarette or any other tobacco product to any person under 18 years of age and in an area within 100 metres …
The persistence of chlorpyrifos in the cured tobacco leaves was studied following foliar applications of chlorpyrifos. The levels of chlorpyrifos residue in cured tobacco leaves increased with increase in the number of foliar applications of chlorpyrifos and pickings performed with closer interval of application.
A survey conducted by the Department of Public Health (DPH) shows that one out of every 10 students studying in secondary grade smoke tobacco in one form or another, the Department has said. According to a statement issued by the DPH, the survey conducted among school children last year under …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called upon its member-countries to ban tobacco advertising to protect youth from taking to smoking. Studies have shown that most smokers in South-East Asia start tobacco consumption before the age of 18 years, and almost a quarter of them start using it even before …
Increasing use of tobacco, in the form of pan masala and gutkha that has a more devastating effect than the puff- PS Prakasa Rao No evil habit has enslaved the people of the whole world as the use of tobacco. Globally, tobacco has been identified as the foremost preventable cause …
Calling for a nation-wide campaign to demand a total ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the Heart Care Foundation of India has dubbed tobacco as the leading preventable cause of death in the world. Addressing a press conference here on the eve of World No Tobacco Day, Heart Care …
To mark the World No-Tobacco Day, Delhi University held a protest march in collaboration with the Delhi University Students Union, World Lung Foundation, Delhi Police and the market-association of Kamla Nagar-Jawahar Nagar on Friday morning. The participants, including faculty and students of DU marched from Jawahar Nagar to Chhatra Marg, …
Senior academicians and health professionals at a media briefing held here on Friday called for a total ban on the manufacturing and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco-related products, saying that these products were injurious to human health and damaging to the national economy. The briefing was organised to mark …
Delhi health minister Dr Yoganand Shastri on Friday said that the Centre was likely to hike the penalty for smoking in public places from the current Rs 200 to Rs 1,000. An announcement in this regard may be made on Saturday on the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day. …
