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 …
Japan's only cigarette making company is facing its first challenge from five smokers who sued the company recently for trying to make them addicted to a harmful product. The company, Japan Tobacco Inc, holds 80 per cent of the nation's cigarette market. Cigarette makers in Japan have an easier time …
In a significant move, five states in the us agreed last month to end state suits against the LiggettGroup, a tobacco firm. The states had filed a lawsuit against the company to recover some of the millions of dollars in Medicaid expenses that each pays out for treating tobacco-related illnesses. …
ONE of the most amusing news items that appeared in almost every leading newspaper of November 14, 1995, was about the goings on at the conference of the International Tobacco Growers' Association (ITGA) held in Bangalore. The Hindu said that Karnataka chief minister, H D Deve Gowda, "did not subscribe …
A large number of developing countries are economically dependent on tobacco export and a major proportion of their gross national product, government revenue and employment comes from tobacco production. But tobacco production has a lot of environmental consequences. Apart from the intensive use of fertilisers, pesticides and water, it affects …
Ottawa's tobacco industry in Canada can once again woo the public by flaunting it's ware. For seven years, tobacco manufacturers were restricted from indulging in promotional campaigns, thanks to the 1988 Tobacco Products Control Act which put a blanket ban on advertising. But the Supreme Court of Canada is convinced …
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 …
Since the early '60s, medical research and public information campaigns have exposed the dangers -- passive and active -- of tobacco smoke. The resulting public paranoia led to the number of smokers in the US plummetting from 41 per cent to 25 per cent. But now, despite considerable scientific evidence …
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 …
