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 …
researchers have come up with a new explanation on how cigarette smoke affects the human body. By focusing on a particular condition caused due to oxygen imbalance in the body, called oxidative stress, the study will help understand the effect of other environmental pollutants on our health. During smoking, the …
>> Disney Studio has pledged to remove smoking from its family-oriented films. The media giant's chief executive Robert A Iger said depictions of smoking will be "discouraged' in films aimed at adults released under its Touchstone and Miramax banners. Iger made the promise in a letter to US congressman Edward …
pakistan floods: Floods caused by cyclone Yemyin and rain devastated southwestern Pakistan in the last week of June. As of July 1, 2007, official reports claim 100 people were dead with thousands missing and homeless. The government has appealed for donations of tents to shelter the homeless. Many casualties had …
70% of the billion or so tobacco related deaths expected by 2025 will occur in developing countries. Such staggering figures could have a profound eff ect on the global economy. India is the second largest producer and consumer of tobacco products worldwide, but it has taken great strides to be …
On July 1, England joins the growing list of countries that have introduced laws to protect the public and employees from the harmful eff ects of passive smoking. From July 1, smoking in almost all enclosed public or work places will be illegal, with fines for smokers who break the …
In a firm step towards checking tobacco use, on May 29 the who issued its strongest policy recommendations. It urged all countries to ban smoking at indoor workplaces and public buildings. It asked governments to immediately pass laws requiring all indoor workplaces and public places to be 100 per cent …
power failure: Bangladesh's shrimp industry in the south of the country is facing severe power shortages. Work in 39 shrimp processing factories in Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira districts has been hampered and they have incurred losses amounting to Rs 2 crore per day. Factory owners complained that their factories had …
The amount of nicotine that us smokers typically inhale per cigarette rose by 11 per cent from 1998 to 2005, perpetuating a "tobacco pandemic' that makes it harder for smokers to quit, according to a study by Harvard School of Public Health. The researchers analysed data submitted by major cigarette …
The uk's public health authorities think New Year's pledges are a good means to curb down smoking. They have ushered in the New Year with an anti-smoking ad which shows smokers being violently seized by a fish-hook and dragged to their traditional smoking spots. The five-week campaign, which will be …
Tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution from biomass fuels have been implicated as risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) infection, disease, and death. Tobacco smoking and indoor air pollution are persistent or growing exposures in regions where TB poses a major health risk. The researchers undertook a systematic review …
in the first week of July, the Florida Supreme Court (sc) upheld an earlier lower court ruling that rejected a us $145-billion award, the largest-ever against tobacco companies. It said that an estimated 300,000 to 700,000 people from Florida, who suffered from the ill-effects of smoking and were part of …
• Musicians from the Shaman forest community in Brazil are on a musical tour of Britain. The tour intends taking vignettes of this Amazonian community's culture to the hosts. • Kenya had to rescind its recently announced ban of smoking in public after an order from the country's Supreme Court. …
• A report found that 12 months after a ban on smoking in bars in New Zealand, there were no downturn in bar sales, tourism or employment, contrary to predictions of serious economic consequences to the hospital industry following the ban. • The Center for Biological Diversity recently filed a …
bacco off the shelf: Thailand has taken a strong step against tobacco sales in the country. They ordered vendors in September to remove all cigarettes from display or risk a US $50,000 fine. Activists say cigarette packets are also effectively an advertisement and so should be hidden from view. sa …
threshold levels of exposure to environmental risks are crucial for regulatory agencies to determine safe limits for harmful contaminants. Though any level of exposure to carcinogens is harmful and regulatory agencies use linear dose-response models to estimate the risk to human health, they usually assume threshold levels exist for non-carcinogens. …
Thailand's anti-tobacco lobby is on the verge of smoking out the display of cigarette packets in retail shops across the country. d-day is September 24, 2005 when cigarette packets will be banished completely from the public eye, hidden away in cupboards, only to be offered when smokers seek their nicotine …
• Conservationists have slammed media mogul Disney for its plans to serve shark's fin soup, sea cucumber and abalone in restaurants at its new theme park in Hong Kong in September. "Promoting these marine species is not responsible because they are not sustainably harvested. Disney should promote responsible consumption,' said …
