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 …
Cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution) Act 2003.
Tobacco Ban The Rajya Sabha's clearance of the tobacco bill has attracted an ad from the industry criticising the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products near educational institutions. The notice argues that the ban would create massive unemployment. In a blatant attempt at emotional blackmail the ad complains, …
US tobacco giant Philip Morris will have to cough up US $10.1 billion for providing wrong information about its "light' cigarettes. A court in the state of Illinois ruled that consumers had been misled into thinking that the company's "light' brand of cigarettes was less harmful than the regular type. …
The European court of first instance in Luxembourg recently refused to shield three of the world's largest tobacco companies from legal action linked to cigarette smuggling. The move was initiated by the European Commission and backed by a majority of eu member states. Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and Japan Tobacco …
the World Health Organisation (who) recently released the draft tobacco treaty text. This would be the basis for final negotiations on the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (fctc) which, when adopted, will be a significant step towards combating global tobacco menace. Excerpts from the text: The preamble of the text …
It has all the ingredients of a thriller novel. Big bucks, dirty politics, powerful organisations, wily strategy, secret documents, and gullible victims all over the world succumbing to lung cancer. Isolated voices of injured smokers against a powerful tobacco front are ruthlessly drowned but eventually an echo is created as …
Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered by a jury to pay $150 million in punitive damages in a suit filed by the estate of Michele Schwarz, who succumbed to lung cancer after smoking cigarettes of its Merit brand. In an unprecedented verdict, the company was found to have falsely …
One-third of all young Chinese men would die due to smoking in the next few decades unless they change their lifestyle, states a new study by a team of international researchers. The prediction was made after researchers studied the case histories of Chinese who died in 1998 in Hong Kong. …
The Supreme Court of India has asked the Union government to provide information about the status of the anti-tobacco bill. These directions were given in response to a petition filed by Women Action Research and Legal Aid for Women, a non-governmental organisation (NGO). The NGO's counsel Rani Jethmalani said that …
the silver lining on the cloud of smoke has proved futile in the us . Only an insignificant amount of the funds from a landmark settlement between the 50 us states and tobacco giants has been utilised for anti-smoking programmes, according to a new report. In 1998, all the us …
Even small doses of paan masala, which mimics the taste of betel nut and leaf, taken for a long time can cause cancer, confirmed a team of researchers at the National Institute of Occupational Health in Ahmedabad. The researchers put 180 mice on a diet containing two per cent paan …
It is a hellish accounting subsidising death for profit. Tobacco giant Philips Morris, as a messenger of death, has come out with the most outrageous revelation: deaths from smoking will help governments save healthcare costs by reducing the average life of a person by five years. In a report submitted …
seldom do public office holders write memoirs which are inspiring without lauding their own heroics. In a rare inspiring book, A Question of Intent , David Kessler narrates the story of his seven years with America's largest but toothless watchdog the Food and Drug Administration ( fda ). Kessler, a …
COMPLEMENTING the book (Question of Intent) without being repetitive is the film The Insider which completes behind the scene of the life of an insider and gives a true picture of the mafia-like operations of the tobacco industry. It clearly depicts the fear psychosis that big sharks develop to silence …
The Bush administration has taken the first step to settle the multi-billion dollar civil lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which many believe will let Big Tobacco off the hook. On June 20, attorney general John Ashcroft named a team of lawyers to explore the possibility of a settlement with the …
tobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay a record fine for misleading consumers about tar levels in its products. A Los Angeles court directed the company to pay a compensation of over us $3 billion to a chain smoker suffering from lung cancer. In addition, Richard Boeken, the …
Nicotine has potential to cure tuberculosis, which is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA. The finding of the study reported by Reuters indicate that small amount of nicotine can kill the bacteria. Nicotine, is also used in cigarettes, …
the unwillingness of the us to take strong action against the tobacco companies was highlighted during the second round of talks regarding the World Health Organisation's framework convention on tobacco control. The talks were held in Geneva from April 30 to May 4, 2001. The us government's reluctance has been …
plants seem to have learnt it to. How do you overcome a strong enemy? Find an even stronger one of his and befriend it. And that is exactly what wild tobacco plants do when attacked by insects, according to a new study. Plants are constantly struggling to ward off a …
