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 …
An Australian law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging has received a boost after an international tribunal said it would not hear a tobacco company's legal challenge. The government in Canberra on Friday welcomed the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration to refuse jurisdiction over a case …
Environmental factors such as sunshine and tobacco smoke cause more cancers than random DNA mutations, researchers have affirmed — contesting another team's conclusions that "bad luck" was mainly to blame. The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, was conducted to challenge a controversy-stirring paper carried by US-based Science …
The risk of cancer is thought to be caused from both genetic and environmental factors. Yet a new study suggests that most cancers are not likely "bad luck," but more the result of unhealthy lifestyle choices, including poor diet, lack of exercise and smoking and/or drinking. New research published in …
One of every three deaths in the U.S. in 2013 were from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, while heart disease and stroke were the No. 1 and No. 2 killers worldwide, according to American Heart Association's 2016 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update. Produced since 1958, the update …
E-cigarette users could be at risk of developing lung disease after scientists found a toxic chemical inside the majority of flavoured refill liquids that they tested. Diacetyl, a substance used in flavouring but which has been linked to cases of bronchiolitis obliterans (or "popcorn lung"), was found in more than …
Tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) is most aggressive head and neck cancer often associated with HR-HPV infection. The role of AP-1 which is an essential regulator of HPV oncogene expression and tumorigenesis is not reported in tongue cancer. One hundred tongue tissue biopsies comprising precancer, cancer and adjacent controls including …
NEW DELHI: Here's another reason for you to kick the butt. Research conducted at AIIMS has showed that men who smoke or consume tobacco in other forms are more likely to father children suffering from cancer. This is so because microelements present in smoke cause oxidative stress that affects the …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday granted the Centre three more weeks to formulate a reply regarding its stand on declaring cigarette and bidi butts “toxic waste”. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Doctors For You Vs. MoEF & CC & Ors. dated 02/11/2015 regarding consumption of tobacco in public places and their disposal. NGT directs that Respondents while filing their Replies would unambiguously state their stand in regard to generation of hazardous …
Sedentary lifestyle, in addition to stressful work conditions and a compromised diet are the leading factors in precipitating heart disease risk. As per a recent study conducted in 12 cities across the country, it has been found that the urban population of the country is at the risk of being …
A plea by a doctors' body seeking prohibition on consumption of tobacco in all public places and their proper disposal, prompted the National Green Tribunal today to seek a response from the government on the issue. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice to Ministry of …
A recent study reveals that Delhiites are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and four out of 10 individuals are at high risk of heart attack. The study, released on the eve of World Heart Day, found an alarming 40.65 per cent of patients in the age group of …
Understanding the genetic basis of airflow obstruction and smoking behaviour is key to determining the pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The researchers used UK Biobank data to study the genetic causes of smoking behaviour and lung health. Original Source
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) comprises approximately 15–18% of all lung cancers worldwide. SCLC is the most aggressive subtype of lung cancer and is characterized by rapid doubling time, high growth fraction, and early widespread metastasis. Despite high response rates to initial treatment, SCLC usually relapses and becomes refractory to …
- Europe has the world's highest rates of drinking and smoking, and more than half its people are too fat, putting them at high risk of heart disease, cancer and other deadly illnesses, health officials warned on Wednesday. In a report on health in its European Region, the World Health …
Even as the government is still deliberating on larger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products, 40% of Indian adults are exposed to second hand tobacco smoke at home. These are people who do not smoke themselves but are vulnerable to various diseases because someone smokes at home, showed a …
Health officials seeking to curb the country's fast increasing cancer rate are implementing a three-year nationwide plan that expands cancer screening, registration and prevention while reducing smoking. Cancer has become a major public health problem, with some 2 million people dying of cancer every year and more than 3 million …
A new worldwide analysis finds the emerging impact of poor diet as the biggest contributor to early deaths in 108 countries across the globe, followed by smoking and air pollution as high-ranking risk factors. The leading authorities on the global disease say bad diet contributed to global deaths with high …
India may have pledged to accelerate hard-hitting measures to reduce tobacco use at the regional committee meeting of South East Asia countries at Timor Leste Monday, but things look grim back home. In a further revelation that endorses that bold pictorial warnings on tobacco products are unlikely to see the …
Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) from cigarettes causes an estimated 41,000 deaths among nonsmoking U.S. adults each year and an estimated $5.6 billion annually in lost productivity caused by premature death. In a 2006 report, the Surgeon General concluded that there is no risk-free level of exposure to SHS. Although …
