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 …
Tuberculosis (TB) patients, who smoke, have much higher mortality rate compared to non-smokers. However, on quitting, their risk reduces substantially. Some focused studies indicate that deaths due to TB are three to four times higher among ever-smokers than never-smokers. Dr RK Sood, District Tuberculosis Officer, stated this. Out of the …
New findings published in the journal Circulation show that children who are exposed to their parents' secondhand smoke are at double the risk of developing heart disease later in life. For the study, over 2,500 children were examined throughout a 26 year period. Findings revealed that those who had parents …
A global anti-tobacco conference that ended yesterday urged countries to take steps to reduce the consumption of tobacco, which it said was a leading cause of disease and death worldwide. In its final declaration, the 16th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Abu Dhabi also called for wider implementation …
AT LAST year’s ten-day annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the prime minister, Li Keqiang, declared “war” on pollution. On March 15th, at the end of this year’s meeting, he admitted that government efforts were falling far short of public expectations. He failed to mention …
European Union diplomats have recently approved new anti-tobaco legislation, including the bloc's first rules on e-cigarettes, allowing most e-cigarettes to be sold as consumer products rather than more tightly regulated medical devices. In the absence of Federal Regulations, US states like New York & Oklahoma have seen highly debated proposals …
New WHO report shows a declining rate of tobacco use and an increase in numbers of non-smokers. But governments must intensify action to combat the tobacco industry and dramatically reduce consumption of tobacco products to, in turn, protect public health says the report released at the World Conference on Tobacco …
The Committee on Subordinate Legislation present this Fourth Report of the Committee on examination of the provisions contained in the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 and the rules framed thereunder. The Cigarettes and other Tobacco …
With a population of about 20 lakh, Nagaland is considered the second highest tobacco consuming State with 57 per cent of the populace into the tobacco habit. The statistics is more worrisome as 37 per cent of students are into smoking habit while 41 per cent school children are users …
The verdict's not yet out on whether or not e-cigarette's are safe. However, new findings published in the journal Health Communications shows that advertisements for them may actually be enticing current and even former tobacco smokers to pick up another cigarette. For the study, researchers examined over 800 daily, intermittent …
A fetus exposed to tobacco smoke may be at increased risk for diabetes in adulthood, a new study of adult daughters finds. The results will be presented in a poster Saturday, March 7, at ENDO 2015, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Diego. Women whose parents smoked …
Findings published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research show that governmental smoking bans don't seem to be helping smokers quit. Researchers at Concordia University have found no significant evidence that smoking bans stop in-home smoking habits. "What distinguishes people who restrict smoking at home is the presence of a …
Ireland has become the first country in Europe to ban branded cigarette packets. The Republic’s second chamber, the Seanad, passed the plain packaging law on Tuesday night, which also makes it illegal to sell cigarettes in lipstick-style containers designed for female smokers. The public health (standardised packaging of tobacco) bill …
SHANGHAI’S lawmakers are working to amend the current anti-smoking law to include a ban on smoking in indoor public and at work places after an earlier effort during the 2010 World Expo delivered expected results. The amended draft is expected to be introduced next year, local health officials said yesterday. …
Scientific research over the last decade has increasingly demonstrated that exposure to secondhand smoke is not simply a nuisance; it is deadly. Secondhand smoke exposure causes multiple diseases in children, including asthma and pneumonia, and results in thousands of avoidable hospitalizations. Secondhand smoke exposure is a major cause of sudden …
The death risk from smoking may be much higher than previously thought - tobacco kills up to two in every three smokers not one in every two, data from a large study suggests. The study tracked more than 200,000 Australian smokers and non-smokers above the age of 45 over six …
There is no difference in the percentage of smokers among women in rural and urban areas (0.7 per cent each) in the State, but more men in rural areas (17.2 per cent) smoke as compared to their counterparts in urban areas (15 per cent). The percentage of men and women …
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)-associated particulate matter (PM) has to be seen as an independent health hazard and needs to be discussed separately from the already well-known toxic and carcinogenic compounds contained in cigarette smoke. We believe that brandspecific amounts of PM are of public interest and should be investigated. Original …
What the Act says The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, says there should be no sale of cigarettes or tobacco products within a radius of 100 m of educational institutes. No sale of tobacco products …
E-cigarettes have for the first time been found to be harmful to the lungs in the same way as traditional nicotine cigarettes. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health confirmed that e-cigarette vapours contain the same potentially dangerous chemicals. Research has also found that e-cigarette vapours contain free …
In a move towards effective implementation of the tobacco control laws, the Delhi’s chief electoral officer (CEO) has declared all polling stations in the city as no-smoking zones in the Assembly polls. CEO Chandra Bhushan Kumar has issued instructions to all district electoral officers-cum-district magistrates to ensure prohibition of smoking …
