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 …
Japan Tobacco has already had its fair share of bad news this year. But the world's third-largest cigarette company, with brands such as Camel and Benson and Hedges, is likely to face further turbulence in the months ahead. The beleaguered JT began the year inauspiciously with a tainted food scare, …
When the tobacco industry was feeling the heat from scientists who showed that smoking caused cancer, it took decisive action. It engaged in a decades-long public relations campaign to undermine the medical research and discredit the scientists. The aim was not to prove tobacco harmless but to cast doubt on …
Hyderabad July 31: The government as well as health experts are deeply concerned about young people of the country getting addicted to smoking. Recent research says that those who start sm king at a young age find it very difficult to quit the habit at a later stage. Smoking among …
Scotland's smoking ban appears to have prevented hundreds of heart attacks in its first year, a study shows. The number of people admitted to the hospital for heart attacks fell by 17% in the year after Scotland's smoking ban took effect in March 2006, according to a study in today's …
80% of cancer patients in Sri Lanka have got the diseases from smoking. Hence the challenge before doctors and health administrators is to carry out not only curative medicine but preventive medicine as well, said Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva yesterday. Addressing a batch of 200 doctors …
Sarah Boseley Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Wednesday that they were joining Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, in a $500m campaign against smoking in the developing world. As smoking has become less acceptable and profitable in the rich world, tobacco companies have expanded in countries where there …
A mobile court during separate drives in the city yesterday fined six people with Tk 50 each for smoking at public places while Hotel Sheraton with Tk 1,000 for naming one of its lounges as Dunhill Lounge. The mobile court, led by Magistrate Mohammad Kamruzzaman, conducted the drives at Kamalapur …
The Delhi University (DU) will soon get a rehabilitation centre to help students quit smoking and drinking, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a programme on "smoking-free campus" organised by the students' union organisation. "The Delhi University is leading the anti-tobacco programme and I …
Smoking in Delhi University's North Campus will now come for a price. Students found puffing away will be challaned anywhere between Rs 150 and Rs 500 by officials from the Delhi Police and Delhi government's anti-tobacco cell. The smoke-free campus campaign, originally kicked off by Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) …
Merely passing laws to prohibit smoking in the public places won't do any good to the society unless its strict implementation is not ensured by the government. This was opined by Dr Bhaben Choudhury, chief consultant of the newly started Tobacco Cessation Clinic of Sanjivani Hospital at Maligaon here. Dr …
The nationwide smoking ban has triggered the biggest fall in smoking ever seen in England, a report says today. More than two billion fewer cigarettes were smoked and 400,000 people quit the habit since the ban was introduced a year ago, which researchers say will prevent 40,000 deaths over the …
Those who say that advertisements have little role in luring people to smoking need to think again. A recent Indo- us study, conducted on 11,642 sixth and eighth graders in Delhi and Tamil Nadu found that nearly 50 per cent of the kids had seen and remembered a tobacco advertisement. …
MORE youngsters fall prey to tobacco abuse without realising that smoking contributes to the rise in diseases such as cancer, said State Health and Family Welfare Minister M R K Panneerselvam here on Tuesday. The minister was inaugurating a workshop on
In a unique experiment, Britain plans to pay smokers to kick their habit. Smokers in deprived communities in Dundee, one of Scotland's major cities, will be offered
Smoking cigarettes has the same effect as cutting the life span by close to five years, according to a mortality risk chart released Tuesday in the US Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "The effect of smoking on the chance of dying is similar to the effect of adding five …
