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 …
health sciences Hooked, genetically Researchers of the University of Michigan, usa, have cracked the genetic secrets of nicotine addiction. Whether or not one gets hooked to smoking is dependent on a particular variant of a gene
Mayans Considered It A Divine Plant And Used It For Ritualistic Purposes When did people start smoking tobacco? Tobacco was smoked in the Americas long before its organized cultivation began somewhere around 5000 to 3000 BC. Tobacco use was ceremonial and ritualistic for the natives with the leaf not only …
Even though the ITC and the Hotel and Restaurant Association have challenged the Indian smoke-free law, to come into effect from October 2, a survey has shown that a majority of Indians are in favour of the law. Conducted between August 9 and 24 in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata …
GUWAHATI, Sept 25: Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden has been declared a no-smoking zone today. In conformity with this declaration, selling of cigarettes, pan and other tobacco materials at the parking lot outside the gate of the zoo has also been banned. The parking lot outside the zoo gate will also …
CHENNAI: From October 2, the ban on smoking in public places will be implemented stringently in Tamil Nadu, Health Secretary V.K. Subburaj has said. Students will have to act as ambassadors, as they will be most effective in checking the smoking habit. Participating in a function to launch the Tobacco …
GENEVA, Sep 19 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday against using electronic cigarettes, saying there was no evidence to prove they were safe or helped smokers break the habit. First made in China and sold mainly over the Internet in countries including Brazil, Britain, Canada and …
With the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare determined to implement the rule of no smoking at all public places, including restaurants, hotels, pubs and discotheques, the hotel industry approached the former on Thursday, asking for various exemptions under the new rule. The ministry, however, firm on its decision, handed …
Sumitra Deb Roy and Deepa Suryanarayan The verdict is out: Mumbai wants to be smoke-free. The new stricter law may just provide the necessary thrust. Sumitra Deb Roy and Deepa Suryanarayan report The fight against passive smoking just got a shot in the arm. A recent survey revealed that nine …
The Government of Sri Lanka has ordered the Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CSE:CTC) to increase its prices by Rs. 1 with effect this week. According to CTC sources, 4 Aces, Vice Roy, Gold Leaf, Pall Mall, Benson and Hedges, and Dunhil will be increased in price by Rs. 1.
61st meeting of the WHO regional committee for South-East Asia now on in Delhi NEW DELHI: Health Ministers from South-East Asian countries and World Health Organisation experts have called for stricter laws, improved implementation of these laws and increased taxes to help reduce tobacco abuse in the region. They are …
Aizawl, Sept 7: Mizoram tops the list of tobacco users with about 77 per cent of the population using tobacco in one form or the other. Students in Mizoram are also found to be heavy users of tobacco as about 54 per cent of them have been said to be …
M Govinda Rao / New Delhi September 02, 2008, 0:09 IST The most important thing is to ban all forms of tobacco consumption in public places. By now, it is well established that tobacco is the single-most important contributor to non-communicable diseases in India. India has the second-largest number of …
Smokers beware! The government is empowering school principals, postmen, railway station masters, even your boss to book you if you're caught smoking in a public place after October 2 , the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The health ministry has already sent the rule for gazette notification and will make …
The explosion of cardiovascular disease in India may not only be bad for the country's health, it could also be bad for its economy. If the surge continues, it could decrease India's productivity and overwhelm its already struggling public-health system, say experts.
