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 …
The air quality in some public places in the city that includes restaurants, bars and pubs, is harmful, says a study conducted by the Voluntary Health Organisation of India in association with Cancer Foundation of India. The study has also implied that ban on smoking could not be enforced in …
The air quality in hotels and restaurants in Calcutta that follow anti-smoking laws is much worse than in similar eateries in the rest of the country, a study conducted in 214 establishments across 16 cities has revealed.
Britain plans to tighten its antismoking law by extending ban on smoking to building entrances and by making the case for plain packaging of cigarettes, reports our London correspondent. The Labour government is also considering promotion of smoke-free homes and cars to protect children from passive smoking. UK health - …
As with problem drinking, gambling, and narcotics use population studies show consistently that a large majority of smokers who permanently stop smoking do so without any form of assistance. In 2003, some 20 years after the introduction of cessation pharmacotherapies, smokers trying to stop unaided in the past year were …
As many as 273 persons die daily in Pakistan due to smoking-related diseases, and failure of the government to introduce pictorial warnings on cigarette packets is a contributory factor. The Network (TN) said this in a statement to highlight the failures of the Pakistani government to implement a decision of …
The report is the second in a series that tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and the impact of the interventions that are being implemented to stop it. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the evidence base for protecting people from the harms of second-hand tobacco smoke through …
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), Bangladesh is a nationally representative household survey of men and women aged 15 years and above. It is designed to produce internationally comparable data on tobacco use and tobacco control measures using a standardized questionnaire, sample design, data collection, aggregation and analysis procedures. In …
Pune A random survey by city-based Chest Research Foundation (CRF) has found that seven out of 100 persons in Pune have got airways obstruction (obstruction of windpipe). The foundation has set up detection booths in various parts of the city, since Monday, as part of World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease …
Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza, or more recently tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam, has the government embarked on as challenging a national project: wiping out smoking in public places. Anyone who has ever spent any time in a Cairo taxicab, restaurant, office, …
- Enforcers blame confusion over who will pocket fine for lack of action The ban on smoking in public places has gone up in smoke with enforcers citing confusion over the
New Delhi: The hype surrounding ban on smoking at public places seems to have vanished into thin air. A recent survey shows that the ban has not been effectively implemented since it came into effect in October last year. The survey conducted by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) found …
Tobacco use is predicted to result in over 1 billion deaths worldwide by the end of the 21st century. How genetic variation contributes to the observed differential predisposition in the human population to drug dependence is unknown. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an emerging vertebrate model system for understanding the …
