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 …
No smoking, less oil, less salt and more excercise frisking came as a surprise to the employees of a company in Nagpur. It was not a security check. Cigarettes, gutka and tobacco packets of the employees were confiscated. It was not a blanket ban but the restrictions were as good …
There is a direct link between smoking and brain damage, according to new research conducted by Debapriya Ghosh and Dr. Anirban Basu from the Indian National Brain Research Centre (NBRC). The researchers discovered that a compound, NNK, which is found in all forms of tobacco, provoked white blood cells in …
President Barack Obama, citing his own struggle to give up smoking, signed into law a bill giving the U.S. government broad regulatory power for the first time over cigarettes and other tobacco products. Mr. Obama said Monday that the law "would curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their …
Vadodara: No smoking area' if you see this board at government offices in Vadodara, Surat and Ahmedabad, thank the RTI applicant from a city-based NGO. His RTI seeking information from all government offices in 12 cities in the state on whether these offices have put up No smoking' in their …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan Also do not conform to the rules for size, says NGO NEW DELHI: With pictorial health warnings on tobacco products finally coming into effect after being deferred and diluted several times since the first notification in July 2006, leading
The Pakistan Medical Research Council has observed that 54 percent of men and 20 percent of women use some form of tobacco on regular basis in Pakistan, while approximately 80 percent smokers start habit before reaching the age of 18-20 years. The Consultant Cardiologist at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer …
Number of people who are smoking is on the increase in Maldives, according to Maldives Customs statistics. Customs statistics indicate a 10 percent increase in cigarettes during the first quarter of 2008 as compared to the same period last year. Various brands of cigarettes worth Rf.34 million were imported in …
Ramya Kannan CHENNAI: The ban on smoking in public places has had an effect on the sale of tobacco products in Tamil Nadu, if one were to go by what retailers, who cover the last-mile sales, say. In a survey conducted by the Directorate of Public Health immediately after the …
CHANDIGARH: As many as 666 people have been fined for smoking at public places in Haryana since the imposition of ban on smoking at public places on October 2 last and Rs. 45,170 had been recovered from them. In a message issued here on the eve of World No-Tobacco Day, …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said smokers have a 70 percent higher death rate than non-smokers. According to WHO, there are approximately 1.1 billion regular smokers in the world, which is one-third of the population aged 15 years and above. According to the figures, roughly 47 percent of men …
Although tobacco is injurious to health, people in the country consume tobacco and its by-products worth Rs1.2 billion annually while the government has failed to take concrete steps to protect the masses from the health hazard involved in it. This was pointed out by health professionals belonging to various medical …
Mumbai: Eight months after a ban was imposed on smoking in public places, a survey conducted by a local NGO has revealed that a large number of Mumbaikars are increasingly becoming aware of the ill-effects of smoking and are opposed to it. The Salaam Bombay Foundation, which conducted the survey …
Pakistan should implement already existing anti-tobacco laws to protect people from the tobacco epidemic, especially as the country has signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - requiring signatories to post "health warnings describing the harmful effects of tobacco use" on cigarette packets and recommending that pictures form part …
New Delhi: While the Union Health Ministry waits for May 31 to put in practice its ambitious plan of pictorial warnings on all tobacco products, the move to ban smoking in public places seems to have paid rich dividends. Hefty fine amounts collected since the ban was imposed from October …
