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 …
Awareness, protests cut tobacco cultivation in southwestern districts Farmers say it destroys soil fertility Amanur Aman, Kushtia Tobacco cultivation in seven southwestern districts which got a big boost several years ago is declining due to awareness about its harmful effect on soil and health following protests and campaign and also …
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on to tobacco, smoke more cigarettes and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction to smoking and how …
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on tobacco, smoke more cigarettes longer, and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction of smoking and how …
The tobacco farmers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on Friday demanded rollback of the Government's decision to increase the excise duty on non-filter cigarettes. The Union Health Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss has been trying hard to force people quit smoking and the decision to increase the excise duty is one in …
Mayor M. Subramanian on Saturday urged more city colleges to join the list of certified tobacco-free institutions. Speaking at a function to distribute
Ceylon Tobacco Co PLC's new Chairman, Jayampathi Divale Bandaranayake will amalgamate his responsibilities, fully conscious of the sensitivities and emotions associated with the tobacco trade. He succeeds Ken Balendra who steps down from the CTC Board after nine years as Director of which the last five years has been as …
From June 24, all packets of tobacco products will carry pictorial warnings in a bid to deter people from smoking. The Union health ministry has issued the final notification, according to which 40% of the space on tobacco packs will have to carry the warnings. While cigarette and beedi packs …
Minister for Information and Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi on Tuesday told Lok Sabha that the Government planned to take action against surrogate advertising resorted to by tobacco and liquor companies. According to a recent notification (dated February 25, 2008) that amended the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, no advertisement would …
Bollywood has often had its knuckles rapped for its on-screen portrayal of tobacco use, but no one would expect the country's premier medical institute, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, to turn into a "safe zone' for sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Under the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products …
Minister-designate for local government and rural development, Bashir Ahmed Bilour, has said that the new provincial government will ensure obtaining its hydel net profit and due share of the revenue generated from the province's tobacco produce from the centre. Talking to delegations of notables of the city here on Tuesday, …
Japan Tobacco Inc will increase its own production of frozen foods while cutting back on outsourcing to China, President Hiroshi Kimura said Tuesday. JT will also expand the scope of its food safety inspections, which focus primarily on the manufacturing process at present, to new supervising procedures including the entire …
Packs of cigarette and beedi or hand-rolled cigars will carry pictorial warnings but not grisly depictions of mouth ulcerations due to cancer, a group of ministers decided after a meeting here Tuesday evening. The ministers also decided that the size and the picture content - of a scorpion or lung …
Philip Morris has ended a controversial 8-year-old program that supported research at dozens of U.S. universities. The tobacco company's decision removes a major factor behind a recent decision by the University of California (UC) to monitor the flow of such support into the 10-campus system.
with each puff of cigarette smoke, one may add on a few virtual years. Scientists have discovered that the smoke suppresses a gene that prevents premature aging. The gene, called sirutin or sirt 1, also plays an important role in stress resistance and metabolism, and hence these functions also suffer. …
A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Tuesday recommended using pictorial warnings on cigarette, beedi and tobacco product packs but did not set any time-frame for its implementation. Chaired by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the GoM also decided to tone down the nature of pictures and reduce the size of …
The civil society groups have urged the finance minister P Chidambaram to raise taxes on tobacco products in the coming budget. The reason, civil groups feel, is that it is the only way to curb the use of these lethal products and also provide the much-needed resources for funding education …
In the 20th century, the tobacco epidemic killed 100 million people worldwide. During the 21st century, it could kill one billion, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has come up with a six-policy package to counter the tobacco epidemic and reduce its deadly toll. In view of the global …
NEARLY half of the world's 1.3 billion smokers live in China, India and Indonesia, the three largest consumers of tobacco products. In China alone, more people smoke than live in the United States. Those countries and others in the developing world represent promising frontiers for the big tobacco companies as …
Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) yesterday urged the government to increase taxes on the tobacco products in the coming budget to check the massive use of tobacco in the country. "Taxes on all tobacco products including dried tobacco leaves, 'gul' and 'zarda' have to be increased for effectively controlling the use …
