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 …
women now account for 39 per cent of all smoking-related deaths each year in the us . The figure has more than doubled since 1965, according to a report on smoking among women, released by the us surgeon general David Satcher on March 27. Vigorous marketing by tobacco companies has …
amid the hype of the Union cabinet's proposal to ban smoking in public places and discontinue tobacco companies' sponsorship of sports and cultural events, the Union government has taken a very contradictory step. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with Greece for exporting tobacco. Analysts feel that this is …
With falling sales, lawsuits and stringent measures in developed countries, tobacco companies have shifted their focus to developing countries. In 1998, tobacco firms spent US $10 billion in advertising outside the US. Today, 80 per cent of the world's smokers live in developing countries. By 2020, one out of three …
a multi-billion dollar civil lawsuit is going to be filed against the us tobacco companies by the European Commission. The commission alleged that it has lost tax revenue worth billions of dollars because of the us cigarettes being illegally sold in Europe. The commission says it has got evidence to …
Tobacco-related diseases are likely to become the biggest killer in Africa in the next 20 years, according to the us -based Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ( cdc ). Tobacco will cause more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, automobile crashes, homicides and suicides combined, says Lawrence Green, a …
the tobacco industry has been secretly campaigning to wreck efforts by the World Health Organisation (who) to fight smoking, claims a recent report. Other allegations include that the industry tried to discredit the who and get its budgets cut and even that it secretly monitored meetings and obtained confidential documents. …
After a marathon trial that went on for two years, a jury in Miami, Florida, ordered major US companies to pay US $145 billion in punitive damages for injuring hundreds of thousands of smokers. The verdict has dwarfed other damages verdicts in the US, including the US $5 billion that …
The Indonesian government has passed a decree, which gives more time to cigarette manu-facturers to comply with the restrictions imposed on tar and nicotine levels. The deadline has been extended from two-years to seven years for machine-rolled cigarettes, and from five years to 10 years for hand-rolled cigarettes. According to …
In a sharp criticism of rich multinational tobacco companies with strong political and economic influence, the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Gro Harlem Brundtland said they were the main obstacles in controlling the "tobacco epidemic' which accounts for 11,000 deaths a day. At the launch of World No-Tobacco …
Despite the adverse health effects of tobacco, developing nations hesitate to take measures against tobacco consumption for fear of economic repercussions. But instances in countries like the UK have shown that measures to control tobacco addiction goes a long way to reduce health risks
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (unfao ) has launched a study to determine how government policies to control tobacco consumption impact the world tobacco economy. The study has been funded by fao and the Swedish International Development Agency (sida), and together they have contributed us $250,000. Announcing the …
Oral cancer is the second most common cancer in women and the third most common in men in Pakistan. Tobacco is smoked and chewed extensively in Pakistan. Paan is a quid of piper betel leaf that contains areca nut, lime, condiment, sweeteners, and sometimes tobacco, which is also used extensively. …
A legislation that would have permitted the Canadian government to sue tobacco companies for recovery of smoking-related healthcare costs has beeg rejected by the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The rejection comes as a major setback for the provincial governments, which had hoped to emulate the success of many US …
Cultivation of tobacco, taxation, advertising and Internet trade were the main issues under discussion at the international conference on Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) held in New Delhi under the aegis of the World Health Organization (WHO). The FCTC is a legal framework being prepared by the WHO for …
Former South Mumbai member of Parliament Murli Deora has pushed for stronger regulations against tobacco advertising in his public interest litigation (PIL) filed against the Union government and other tobacco companies. "We already have a law that deals with advertising, but we are going to ask for more explicit warnings …
Children exposed to their parents' smoking may soon begin suing them. A recently-released report by Eugene Arocca, a partner at the Australia-based Maurice Blackburn Cashman, says that the focus in tobacco litigation in Australia will soon shift from exposure in the workplace to family law and the hospitality industry. He …
Florida's Supreme Court has dealt the US tobacco industry a heavy blow by refusing to overturn an earlier appeals court ruling allowing a class action suit to be brought against the tobacco giants. This ruling could leave tobacco makers open to us $300 billion lawsuit filed by thousands of ailing …
in a bid to improve its public image, us tobacco giant Lorillard Tobacco Company has launched a nationwide smoking prevention programme for the youth. Under the national tobacco settlement that was reached last November by 46 us states and territories and the major players of the tobacco industry, the latter …
Is the incidence of cancer on the rise? The increase is both real and apparent. Every year eight million new cases of cancer are being reported worldwide, according to the latest estimates of the World Health Organisation ( who) , 60 per cent of whom can be found in the …
it has come at a time when the us tobacco companies thought that they had successfully weathered the string of lawsuits by states and federal governments over the past two years. On September 22, the us Justice Department filed a huge civil lawsuit against them, alleging that cigarette smoking costs …
