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 …
An increase in the consumption of smokeless tobacco has been noticed among high school, college students, and adults. Despite the antiquity and popularity of chewing tobacco in India, its effects have not been investigated systematically in humans. The aim of this study was to investigate acute effects of gutkha chewing …
RAIPUR: An unprecedented spurt in swine flu deaths; introduction of the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Council Bill 2015 to regulate the working of therapists; a proposal to start air ambulance services at the newly set up AIIMS; a promise to impose a complete ban on sale of edible tobacco, including …
Cigarette consumption in India is falling steadily even as the number of women smokers is rising, making it home to the second largest number of female smokers after the United States. According to the latest data on cigarette consumption given by the health ministry in Parliament, the consumption in 2014-15 …
When cigarette smoke is blown into the environment, its chemical constituents don't just vanish into thin air. Residue from the smoke settles into, accumulates and is stored in the surrounding environment, such as upholstery, carpets, walls, clothing and curtains. The residue can be detected long after the last cigarette has …
An Australian law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging has received a boost after an international tribunal said it would not hear a tobacco company's legal challenge. The government in Canberra on Friday welcomed the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration to refuse jurisdiction over a case …
THE Sustainable Afforestation Association (SAA) is on course completing a total 8 000 hectares of new eucalyptus plantations in just three years, in a massive private-sector offensive against tobacco-related deforestation, but that will not be all that's needed in an industry, which is seen as both an environmental curse and …
Nagpur: Even as winter and festivities like Diwali and Dussehra bring along a big cheer for most people, the last couple of months of the year become the most difficult time for around two crore Indians. These are the people suffering from a progressive lung disease called chronic obstructive pulmonary …
NEW DELHI: Here's another reason for you to kick the butt. Research conducted at AIIMS has showed that men who smoke or consume tobacco in other forms are more likely to father children suffering from cancer. This is so because microelements present in smoke cause oxidative stress that affects the …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday granted the Centre three more weeks to formulate a reply regarding its stand on declaring cigarette and bidi butts “toxic waste”. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) …
The Andhra Pradesh government has declared 196 mandals (revenue units comprising a varying number of villages) in seven districts, as drought-affected during the Kharif season of this year. "Government after careful examination of the recommendations of the Committee on Drought and keeping in view of the reports furnished by the …
Ham, hot dogs also in group 1 list alongside tobacco, diesel fumes, asbestos for causes of cancer Eating processed meat can lead to bowel cancer in humans while red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said on Monday in findings that could sharpen …
A plea by a doctors' body seeking prohibition on consumption of tobacco in all public places and their proper disposal, prompted the National Green Tribunal today to seek a response from the government on the issue. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice to Ministry of …
The World Health Organization’s new Noncommunicable Disease Progress Monitor tracks the extent to which 194 countries are implementing their commitments to develop national responses to the global burden of NCDs. The Monitor provides a snapshot of some of the achievements and challenges faced by both developed and developing countries as …
Most people in Europe are too fat, according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO). It said 59% of the population were either overweight or obese. Its European Health Report also said the WHO Europe region, which includes parts of Asia, had the highest levels of alcohol and …
Even as the government is still deliberating on larger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products, 40% of Indian adults are exposed to second hand tobacco smoke at home. These are people who do not smoke themselves but are vulnerable to various diseases because someone smokes at home, showed a …
Days after the Rajasthan HC directed the Union health ministry to implement the new pictorial warnings on tobacco products without any delay, the ministry has said that “they are committed” to issuing larger pictorial warnings in the court. The ministry recently filed a “compliance” affidavit in the court, citing that …
Health officials seeking to curb the country's fast increasing cancer rate are implementing a three-year nationwide plan that expands cancer screening, registration and prevention while reducing smoking. Cancer has become a major public health problem, with some 2 million people dying of cancer every year and more than 3 million …
A new worldwide analysis finds the emerging impact of poor diet as the biggest contributor to early deaths in 108 countries across the globe, followed by smoking and air pollution as high-ranking risk factors. The leading authorities on the global disease say bad diet contributed to global deaths with high …
India may have pledged to accelerate hard-hitting measures to reduce tobacco use at the regional committee meeting of South East Asia countries at Timor Leste Monday, but things look grim back home. In a further revelation that endorses that bold pictorial warnings on tobacco products are unlikely to see the …
The health costs of tobacco exceeded the combined annual state and central government expenditure on health care by 12% in 2011 In January this year, the government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the minimum smoking age to 21 from 18, and to …
