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 …
Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa said Tuesday the prefecture has compiled a basic plan for an ordinance to ban smoking in hotels, restaurants and other public places to prevent passive smoking. The prefecture will aim to compile a draft for the ordinance after seeking opinions and comments from the public and …
By the end of May smokers are going to find it difficult to find a safe place to smoke. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is finalising the new rules for restricting smoking in public places and proposes to publicise the same before No Tobacco Day on May 31. …
Scientists have found important genetic differences between people that may help explain why some smokers get lung cancer and others do not. Three teams from France, Iceland and the United States said on Wednesday that they had pinpointed a region of the genome containing genes that can put smokers at …
Scientists today publish the first genetic clues to unravelling the mystery of why some smokers puff their way through life without developing disease while others die young of lung cancer. Three research teams have independently discovered a set of genetic variations that increase the risk of lung cancer and may …
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on to tobacco, smoke more cigarettes and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction to smoking and how …
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on tobacco, smoke more cigarettes longer, and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction of smoking and how …
The tobacco farmers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on Friday demanded rollback of the Government's decision to increase the excise duty on non-filter cigarettes. The Union Health Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss has been trying hard to force people quit smoking and the decision to increase the excise duty is one in …
CT Screening for Lung Cancer Small print at the end of the study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, noted that it had been financed in part by a little-known charity called the Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention & Treatment. A review of tax records by …
Mayor M. Subramanian on Saturday urged more city colleges to join the list of certified tobacco-free institutions. Speaking at a function to distribute
From June 24, all packets of tobacco products will carry pictorial warnings in a bid to deter people from smoking. The Union health ministry has issued the final notification, according to which 40% of the space on tobacco packs will have to carry the warnings. While cigarette and beedi packs …
Minister for Information and Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi on Tuesday told Lok Sabha that the Government planned to take action against surrogate advertising resorted to by tobacco and liquor companies. According to a recent notification (dated February 25, 2008) that amended the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, no advertisement would …
Bollywood has often had its knuckles rapped for its on-screen portrayal of tobacco use, but no one would expect the country's premier medical institute, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, to turn into a "safe zone' for sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Under the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products …
The nationwide effects of smoking on mortality in India have not been assessed reliably. Smoking causes a large and growing number of premature deaths in India.
A simple discussion of lung capacity appears to double the rate patients follow a doctor's advice to quit smoking. Effect on Smoking Quit Rate of Telling Patients Their Lung Age: The Step2quit Randomised controlled trial (BMJ)A study published online March 7 in the British journal BMJ suggests that if a …
Packs of cigarette and beedi or hand-rolled cigars will carry pictorial warnings but not grisly depictions of mouth ulcerations due to cancer, a group of ministers decided after a meeting here Tuesday evening. The ministers also decided that the size and the picture content - of a scorpion or lung …
The Diabetic Association of Bangladesh on Thursday observed Diabetes Awareness Day to mark its 52nd founding anniversary. Experts, at a question-answer session, said some cautious food habits, physical exercise, quitting smoking and reducing mental stress could reduce the risk to diabetics. The association president, AK Azad Khan, said people should …
with each puff of cigarette smoke, one may add on a few virtual years. Scientists have discovered that the smoke suppresses a gene that prevents premature aging. The gene, called sirutin or sirt 1, also plays an important role in stress resistance and metabolism, and hence these functions also suffer. …
