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 …
according to a report by the Action on Smoking and Health ( ash ) and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, uk, tobacco giants possessed the technology that could have reduced the death toll caused by their products, but did not use them fearing that marketing a
Should cigarettes have a low or high tar certification? Should the court be approached to force cigarette companies to make safer cigarettes for the general public? There are reasons for asking these questions. The Supreme Court has given top priority to health while ordering car manufacturers to observe emission norms …
a state jury in Portland, Oregon, usa, has ordered tobacco giant Philip Morris Co to pay us $81 million to the family of a man who smoked Marlboro cigarettes for four decades before he died. The man, Jesse Williams, died in 1997, five months after he was diagnosed with lung …
the British tobacco industry recently got a big boost when the largest legal action against it collapsed, drastically reducing Britain's chances of mounting a successful anti-tobacco litigation like its transatlantic neighbour, the us . The case collapsed on February 27, when 46 of a group of 53 lung cancer victims …
T he collapse of a landmark anti-tobacco case in the uk has severely hit prospects of a us -style litigation against tobacco companies. While this had been successful in the us , where states had sued tobacco companies to recover the costs for treating smoking-related illnesses, the withdrawal of their …
US Tobacco companies are finally being made to foot the medical bill of smokers across the country. Forty-six states in the US and cigarette-makers have unanimously agreed on a US $206 billion resolution of tobacco health claims.Christine Gregoire, who led the negotiations for the states, said that the settlement with …
A SINGLE vaccine can save more lives and money than any other form of medication currently available. This is a universal truth. In the next century, some 15-odd months away, doctors and scientists will strive to develop vaccines far more powerful and effective. Vaccines that will finally put an end …
Smoking might be dangeous for human health, but tobacco plants are not, claim Japanese scientists who have used the gene genie to get some health benefits from these plants. Tobacco plants could soon become a cheap source of a protein that can detect hepatitis B in donated blood. Shinya Tsuda …
Genetically engineered potatoes and tobacco plants would now save themselves from four major fungal diseases. Matteo Lorito of the Federico II University of Naples and his colleagues have equipped these plants with a gene which helps make a powerful anti-fungal endochiti-nase. This enzyme digests fungal cell walls and other structures …
IMPERIAL, Gallagher, Rothmans and British American Tobacco (BAT), the four biggest tobacco companies in the UK, will challenge a report from a government advisory committee that recommends a ban on tobacco advertising and smoking in public places. On July 6, the companies got permission from a high court judge in …
THE first mass action by ailing smokers in the US to reach court opened in Miami, Florida, in the second week of July. The tobacco industry is being sued for US $320 billion in compensation and damages. If successful, the action could cripple the US tobacco industry. Lawyers say that …
Sri Lanka has ordered a ban on liquor and cigarette advertisements in state-run media from January next year, say officials. President Chandrika Kumaratunga has asked the concerned ministry to even encourage privately-owned radio and television stations as well as newspapers to fall in line by the stipulated time. The decision …
the new battle in the war against tobacco may soon be fought in Latin America. Guatemala may take legal action against two tobacco companies to recover healthcare costs associated with smoking. The attorney general of Guatemala, Acisclo Valladares Molina, has hired a us law firm to consider litigation to recover …
In an age of global competition, small tobacco companies have been swallowed by conglomerates. The remaining decide the prices among themselves, and punish growers who decide to sell elsewhere. This means disaster for the 160,000 tobacco growers of Brazil, the leading exporters of tobacco. Local officials estimate that 35 per …
if the health ministry has its way, you may no longer be able to chew your favourite pan masala. As the health ministry ponders over a recommendation to ban the production and sale of all chewable tobacco products, the Rs 1400-crore " pan-zarda-gutka ' industry has gone into a tizzy. …
THE Spanish Conquistadors came to the New World in search of gold. They found tobacco instead, a cash crop which sold better than any other in history. It became a legal narcotic, the foundation of many a business empire. It also became a scourge let loose by the New World …
Multinational toba-cco companies faced with shrinking markets and increasing restrictions in the industrialised world, are wooing consumers throughout the newly-opened econo-mies of Loas, Cam-bodia, Burma and Vietnam. Using slick advertising and dollar power, the companies are promoting an image of cigarette-makers that is synonymous with entrepreneurship, individual freedom and unlimited …
The Orissa High Court has settled the three-month-old controversy over the sale of Kendu leaf in favour of the state-owned Orissa Forest Development Corporation (OFDC). The Court dismissed the petition filed by the Federation of Bidi, Bidi Leaf & Tobacco Merchants that has challenged the invitation of bids by OFDC …
Low-tar, filter-tipped cigarettes have only increased the incidence of adenocarcinomas, a cancer occurring deep inside the lungs. According to the American Cancer Society, only non-filtered cigarettes were linked to lung cancers so far. But data on the disease reveal that adenocarcinomas, never linked to smoking earlier, was rising in those …
a ban on tobacco advertising in the European Union ( eu) is on the anvil. The Netherlands, which holds the crucial swing vote, is likely to vote for a ban on tobacco advertising. The Dutch move is at odds with the uk government which wants to back tobacco advertising curbs …
