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 …
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Smoking is responsible for nearly half of deaths due to certain types of cancers in 2011, a US study said Monday. Some 48.5 percent of nearly 346,000 deaths attributed to one of the 12 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking were due …
Singapore's Ministry of Health has announced plans to ban existing and emerging tobacco products in two phases as a "pre-emptive measure to protect public health against the known and potential harms of such products". Any project containing nicotine or tobacco that may be used topically for application, by implant or …
To our knowledge, a systematic comparison of predictors of mortality in middle-aged to elderly individuals has not yet been done. We investigated predictors of mortality in UK Biobank participants during a 5 year period. We aimed to investigate the associations between most of the available measurements and 5 year all-cause …
More than 1,000 inspectors, hefty fines and a widespread media campaign support crackdown in city with 4.2m smokers Qi Xingming woke up on Monday morning and took his place on the frontline of China’s war on cigarettes. Wearing a red armband and a panama hat emblazoned with the name of …
India is a large country with each State having distinct social, cultural and economic characteristics. Tobacco epidemic is not uniform across the country. There are wide variations in tobacco consumption across age, sex, regions and socio-economic classes. This study was conducted to understand the wide inequalities in patterns of smoking …
Public smoking in China's capital, Beijing, is now banned after the introduction of a new law. China has over 300 million smokers and over a million Chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year. Smoking bans already existed in China, but have largely failed to crack down on the habit. …
The Egyptian government has recently taken serious measures to reduce smoking. However, the country is still the largest tobacco market in the Arab world, and has one of the top 10 per capita cigarette consumption. Last year, an Egyptian study revealed that 24.4 percent of Egypt's 90 million populations are …
Despite a ban on tobacco-mixed gutka in Madhya Pradesh, state's population is one of the worst affected, going by data on prevalence of tobacco use versus tobacco-related cancers. Moreover, MP is one of the worst states on enforcement of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COPTA). With four in 10 …
Health Minister Iruthisham Adam has stated that Maldivians on average start smoking at a very young age and that habit usually starts from home. She made the statement in the official statement released on the International Anti- Smoking Day. Minister Iruthisham stated that even though the Government had initiated measures …
ISLAMABAD: Health experts on Sunday said that larger pictorial labels are more effective in informing about the dangers of smoking. They were addressing a concluding session of four-day awareness workshop on ‘Pictorial Health Warning in Pakistan’, jointly organised by the Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) and Coalition for …
Following a controversy sparked recently over remarks by some Members of Parliament on tobacco use, a group of leading film-makers is seeking to dilute the strong tobacco control measures undertaken by successive governments. The film-makers have made a representation to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to withdraw the stipulation that …
Lung adenocarcinomas from never smokers account for approximately 15 to 20% of all lung cancers and these tumors often carry genetic alterations that are responsive to targeted therapy. Here we examined mutation status in 10 oncogenes among 89 lung adenocarcinomas from never smokers. We also screened for oncogene fusion transcripts …
ISLAMABAD: Medical practitioners have said that every year over 80,000 Pakistanis get different heart diseases and after every two minutes a countryman suffers from heart attack. They were addressing the participants of a workshop ‘enhanced pictorial health warning in Pakistan’ on Sunday jointly organised by the Society for Alternative Media …
RESIDENTS in Beijing can report on indoor smoking in public venues after the smoking ban takes effect in June, a government official said today. The Beijing municipal legislature passed a bill in November last year, banning smoking in all indoor public places, workplaces, and on public transportation. Liu Zejun, director …
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Starting in the fall semester, the University of Iowa will become the first of the state's three public universities to ban all forms of tobacco on its campus. Smoking cigarettes was outlawed at UI in conjunction with the state's Smoke Free Air Act in 2008, but …
The Supreme Court today agreed to advance its hearing and ruling on a plea for strict implementation of the laws for display of pictorial warnings to discourage the use of tobacco and its products such as cigarette and “beedi”. A Bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the petition by …
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria exposed to cigarette smoke became even more resistant to killing by the immune system. "We already know that smoking cigarettes harms human respiratory and immune cells, and now we've shown that, on the flipside, …
The Health Ministry today postponed indefinitely the enforcement of tougher anti-tobacco pack warnings it had notified in October last year for implementation from April 1 this year. The postponement came in the form of a “corrigendum” to the ministry’s October 2014 notification which required the tobacco industry to print pictorial …
The Union health ministry’s decision to defer the implementation of a notification for increasing the size of pictorial health warning on cigarette packets and various other tobacco products has not gone down well with the public health experts and tobacco control advocates. In a letter to the Prime Minister, they …
If a woman smokes during pregnancy, doctors may actually be able to tell simply by looking at the fetus. Scientists have found that the harmful effects of smoking may be reflected in the facial movements of the mothers' unborn babies. In this latest study, the researchers looked at 4-D ultrasound …
