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 campaign against the US tobacco industry is likely to gain momentum in view of a recent judgement in Californian Court. The jury awarded US $2 million as compensation to o 70-year-old 'man who alleged that he had got cancer (myso- tbehoma) from asbestos in Kent cigarette filters. The company, …
A September 1995 World He Organization (WHO) consultant on tobacco-related mortality a cluded that 200 million won smoke worldwide, ofwhom 100 m lion are in developed countries, I alarming statistics reveal that in US and the UK, about W90 M c of lung cancer cases are caused smoking, and lung …
A study conducted by a UK research group revealed that among women dying due to tobacco intake the world over, Scottish women figure on the top of the list. This is 2/3rds more than in the UK. Incidentally, smoking is one of the main causes of premature deaths in both …
A GROUP of outraged medics belonging to the American Medical Association (AMA), are bellowing fire and brimstone against villains in the tobacco industry. AMA members came up with a scathing editorial in the July 31 issue of their publication, Jqurnal of the American Medical Association (IAmA). It declares that the …
AS THE world's leading producer and consumer of tobacco, China saw cigarette output and the number of smokers both increase by 3 per cent last year. China has 300 million smokers, which is more than the population of the us. o4owever, despite the booming business, tobacco barons of the country …
The vivacious "Made for Each Other" couple may vanish from highway hoardings, if the statement made on May 31 marking World No-Tobacco day, by the Union minister of state for health C Silvera, "to discourage" the use of tobacco, comes true. Explaining the move to introduce such a bill, director …
With a view to check the smoking menace, the Delhi High Court has issued show-cause notices to the Central and the Delhi governments. They have been asked to explain why a petition seeking the ban of smoking in public places -- filed by Rajesh Chawla, a cardiologist and president of …
The world's largest exporter of flue-cured tobacco last year, is confident of getting higher prices on the international market this season despite an aggressive worldwide anti-smoking lobby. The tobacco industry feels that notwithstanding the anti-smoking campaign, profits will be high as long:s the emphasis on quality is adhered to -since …
This is a classic case of perverting dialectics: the coming together of class enemies in a smoking party. Leading cigarette manufacturers of the country are orchestrating a high profile public relations exercise against the proposed bill to enforce a countrywide ban on advertising tobacco products. And none but the Marxists …
President Boris Yeltsin has sent Russia's advertising industry reeling by banning tobacco and alcohol advertisements. In the last 3 years Russia's advertising market has seen media organisations catering to Western multinationals who have been vying to get a toehold in the country. The tobacco and alcohol markets have seen an …
ONE person dies of smoking every 10 seconds somewhere in the world, but the worst is yet to come, reveals a recent study. Richard Peto of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, UK, one of the authors of the study, who was recently in Delhi to attend the 16th …
Now in the US if a passenger lights up during a flight, the purser may sue the manufacturer for "health problems" caused by passive smoking. The ruling, passed by a Miami judge, has triggered off a fracas between the anti-smoking lobby and tobacco firms. The Miami suit tests whether tobacco …
In a bid to woo the big industry, the West Bengal government will withdraw the 10 per cent luxury tax on cigarettes before the next budget. Keen to give a push to industrialisation, the state government is going all out to give sops to the big companies like Indian Tobacco …
China's recent decision to ban tobacco advertising may send the ambitions of international cigarette giants up in spoke. With a population of nearly 1.2 billion and one of every three smokers in the world, the Chinese market offers new opportunities for majors such as Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco who …
Voluntary organisations and activists campaigning against the use of tobacco received a massive boost during the 16th International Cancer Congress held in Delhi last fortnight. The Congress focused on tobacco-related hazards and several papers presented at the occasion pointed out that the economic burden of tobacco-related diseases far outweigh the …
Round 1in the current wrestle between the hulking cigarette industry and the government goes to the US administration. Just when the tobacco lobby had heaved a collective sigh of relief at having squeeze in its favour a relatively mild tax of 69 cents per cigarette pack, when the government backhanded …
The one good, vengeful thing that the Red Injuns gave to the West was a stinky, filthy, addictive, noxious wad of goo, which virtually made a reeking tabagie out of the English court. Over time, it slipped from being Sir Walter Raleigh's court status symbol to possibly the biggest mass …
While the anti-tobacco lobby in India is euphoric about the government's proposed ban on tobacco advertisements in the country (Down To Earth, Vol 3 No 3), Members of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh have strongly opposed the move. A delegation of MPs and All India Congress Committee (AICC) members has told …
THE anti-smoking lobby in India country will receive a shot in the arm once tougher regulations currently being drafted by the Union health ministry are implemented. The proposed measures will introduce a complete ban on tobacco advertising in the country. Such advertising is, at present, banned on the electronic media …
SMUGGLERS haunting the US-Canada border have scuttled the Canadian government's policy of levying high taxes on tobacco products. Responding to the protests of the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers' Council, which claims that the flood of cheap, contraband cigarettes from the US has ruined businesses, Canada's federal government and that of Quebec …
