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 …
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) may help cigarette smokers quit smoking, yet they may also facilitate cigarette smoking for never-smokers. Researchers quantified the balance of health benefits and harms associated with e-cigarette use at the population level. Original Source
How Tobacco companies subvert anti-tobacco laws capable of saving millions in Nigeria, others - Report How American company, Philip Morris, is flooding Nigeria with 122 million 'units' of cigarettes Tobacco Fact-sheet: Tobacco Companies Engage in CSR to Promote Company Interests Tobacco company denies targeting kids U.S. Court tightens noose on …
Expert says that in most places it is equivalent to smoking 5-7 cigarettes There are few non-smokers in India. One may not smoke; may even be a just-born, but still inhale the pollution equivalent to five to seven cigarettes a day. That is how bad the situation is, not just …
E-cigarette smoke (ECS) delivers nicotine through aerosols without burning tobacco. ECS is promoted as noncarcinogenic. We found that ECS induces DNA damage in mouse lung, bladder, and heart and reduces DNA-repair functions and proteins in lung. Nicotine and its nitrosation product 4-(methylnitrosamine)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone can cause the same effects as ECS and …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Despite the various awareness programmes, Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of smokers in South India with new smokers being constantly added to the numbers. The percentage of smokers in the state at 14.2 per cent is around 4 per cent above the national average of 10.7 per cent, …
NEW DELHI: Smokers, beware. Delhi police have launched a crackdown on smoking in public places and has over the last four days booked 6,941 people in south Delhi for lighting up in public. Police teams are keeping a watch at markets, Metro stations and bus stops, where the maximum violations …
SMOKING is a scourge. It is the leading preventable cause of cancer and kills over 7m people annually, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. In America, where it is linked to one death in five, it is estimated to cost more than $300bn a year in medical bills and lost …
Self-rated health (SRH) accounts comprehensively for many health domains. The aim of this paper was to investigate time trends and associations between age-comparative self-rated health and some known determinants in a general population aged 24–34 years. Population-based cross-sectional surveys were performed in 1990, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 in …
Abuja — A new Nigeria research data has revealed how big tobacco companies violet legal framework which provides against advertising to young and vulnerable children. The Nigerian Tobacco Control Research Group (NTCRG) and the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN), in collaboration with the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manjinder Singh Sirsa Vs. Union of India & Others dated 09/10/2017 regarding hookah bars in Delhi. NGT directs impleadment of associations of the Restaurants/Hukka Bars and other commercial places where Hukka is being provided for the purpose of smoke.
NIN centenary year fete begins with release of report on urban health One-sixth of India’s adult male population smokes tobacco while nearly a third consumes alcohol, suggest latest findings from the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). The city-based national-level institute kick-started its centenary year on Tuesday with release of a …
Dehradun: Addressing a conference, the National Health Mission (NHM) director, Chandresh Kumar, said that Uttarakhand has taken up a target to make the state free from Tuberculosis by 2025. He was speaking at the three-day training and workshop of district Tuberculosis (TB) officers, supervisors and district coordinators of Uttarakhand that …
Preventing Stroke: Uneven progress is a report by The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by The Bristol-Myers Squibb–Pfizer Alliance. It considers policy efforts to assess and reduce risks of stroke in 20 countries globally based on a scorecard rating each country’s performance across different aspects, including awareness, screening practices and policies …
Chronic electronic (e) cigarette users have increased resting cardiac sympathetic nerve activity and increased susceptibility to oxidative stress. The purpose of the present study is to determine the role of nicotine versus non-nicotine constituents in e-cigarette emissions in causing these pathologies in otherwise healthy humans. Original Source
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago has begun enforcing the Tobacco Control Regulations, which bans smoking in public places, a senior official said on Friday. Jamala Taib, Director General of Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, said that the decision to enforce the anti-smoking regulations came after …
Exposure to thirdhand-smoke can significantly harm your liver and brain tissues within a month, with the effect worsening over time, scientists have warned. Thirdhand-smoke (THS) results when exhaled smoke and smoke emanating from the tip of burning cigarettes gets on surfaces such as clothing, hair, homes, and cars. THS can …
This new WHO report charts down actions undertaken by countries to set targets, implement policies to address main shared and modifiable NCD risk factors – tobacco, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol. Governments must step up efforts to control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to meet globally agreed targets, …
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report highlights the links between air pollution and the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (also called NCDs) that is affecting people worldwide. Heart disease, stroke, lung disease and cancers, are among the top five causes of death today, and one-quarter to one-third of deaths from …
E-cigarettes appear to be effective when used by smokers as an aid to quitting smoking. The hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes is unlikely to exceed five per cent of the harm from smoking tobacco. Banning e-cigarettes may deprive Indian smokers of a substantially less …
An evaluation by health ministry at end of the programme's first year, covering over 12,000 registered users, demonstrated an average quit rate of about 7 per cent among both smokers and smokeless tobacco users, a 2017 WHO report on the epidemic said. The WHO has said more than 20 lakh …
