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 …
Creating awareness: Adyar Cancer Institute Chairman V. Shanta launches a documentary on the health hazards of tobacco at a function in Chennai on Tuesday. Commissioner of Police K.Radhakrishnan receives the first copy. Tobacco Cessation Centre coordinator E. Vidhubala is in the picture. CHENNAI: Speakers voiced concern over the increasing tobacco …
AFTER being put off five times since February 2007, it looks like the picto rial warnings on tobacco products are finally set to arrive this month. This time the State Government is taking no chances. At a meeting held here on Monday, the Directorate of Pub lic Health and Preventive …
China will ban smoking in all hospitals and medical facilities beginning in 2011, the Health Ministry said Friday. China is the world's largest cigarette producer, and the Chinese represent a growing market of about 320 million, making it the focus of international health concerns. Chinese cigarettes are among the cheapest …
Methods to improve health and life of workers discussed Health status: Apoorva (centre), Special Secretary, Health Department, launches a report on the status of bidi workers at a function organised by the Tamil Nadu Voluntary Health Association in Chennai on Thursday. E.Vidhubala (right), head of the Department of Psycho-oncology, Adyar …
Ranju Sarkar / New Delhi May 21, 2009, 0:26 IST Pictorial health warnings could hurt demand for domestic cigarettes The demand for tobacco products could fall sharply once tobacco-makers start displaying pictorial health warnings on their products from May 31, to abide by a Supreme Court order on the same …
Mumbai Months after the anti-smoking law was implemented in the country, restaurants and bars in the city fare better than suburbs on complaince with the anti-smoking law, reveals a study. Another survey points out that air quality in smoking areas of the city is even worse than that around the …
New Delhi: Just over seven months into the ban on smoking in public places, the habit has been curbed somewhat but not tamed, government Health department officials have said. Before she walked into a meeting to take stock of the effects of the ban, state
Bulgarian lawmakers voted on Friday to ban smoking in all public spaces from June 2010, ignoring protests from tobacco producers and the tourist industry in Europe's number two smoker. The Black Sea country has already banned smoking in hospitals, taxis and offices and requires restaurant and bar owners to designate …
zoology Undersea myths The mystery behind the underwater display of natural glow, seen by sailors time and again, has been solved. It is the bioluminescent marine fireworm that secretes a mucous which gives out a green glow to attract mates and ward off predators. Reported in the March issue of …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for the records of a meeting of Group of Ministers on the issue of pictorial health warnings on cigarette and beedi packs to examine the charge of former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss that the minutes of the meeting were changed to benefit …
The Himachal Pradesh Government is contemplating to empower "Men in Uniform" and other in-line departmental officers to compound the offences under Control of Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003. The Government was determined to rid the State of the "tobacco epidemic" and make the State smoke-free, Chief Secretary Asha Swaroop said …
Chinese civil servants who refuse or fail to consume a sufficient amount of locally made cigarettes will be fined Believe it or not, Chinese civil servants who refuse or fail to consume a sufficient amount of locally made cigarettes, will be fined. An order to this effect has been passed …
