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 …
Contrary to the prevalent belief, smoking is the most important cause of premature heart attacks, with India having about 4.5 crore patients with ischemic heart disease, doctors warned on Wednesday on the eve of the “World No Tobacco Day.” According to the World Health Organisation, tobacco use is one of …
District Collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed has said that sale of no kind of tobacco products will be allowed near educational institutions. The district administration has taken a strong stand against tobacco in its recommendations for educational institutions ahead of the new academic year. The committees against tobacco in schools should …
GUWAHATI: the World Health Organization (WHO) will observe the 12th World No Tobacco Day. This year WHO has selected ‘Tobacco Industry Interference’ as the theme. Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) requires all parties when setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco …
Naimuddin Shaikh, a 37-year-old oral cancer patient, has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, asking him to emulate the blanket ban on tobacco products followed in states like Kerala and Madhya Pradesh. Shaikh, who is presently being treated in Tata Hospital, is in the advanced stage of …
A year ago, the government made it mandatory for kiosks selling tobacco products to display boards announcing that such sales to minors are illegal. And schools would have to put up boards saying that tobacco products are not to be sold within a radius of 100 yards of any educational …
An average 274 people die each day in the country from tobacco-related diseases, according to a survey carried out by a consumer protection agency. In its report on the eve of World No-Tobacco Day being observed on Thursday, the agency says that more than 100,000 people die every year in …
This new WHO report provides information by country on the proportion of adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable to tobacco by major communicable and non-communicable causes by age and sex. This report provides information by country on the proportion of adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable …
CHENNAI : It might just be that much more difficult to get your daily dose of cigarettes on May 31. To mark World Tobacco-free Day, the Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangankalin Peravai has made an appeal to their 2 lakh odd members in Chennai who are involved in the sale of …
Nearly 6 million Mumbaikars consume tobacco in some or the other form, according to statistics collected by Tata Memorial Hospital as part of its ongoing studies on tobacco use. The hospital has estimated that of these, 2 million, or one out of every seven, will die prematurely of tobacco-consumption related …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Citing increasing incidence of diseases like oral cancer, the Congress-led UDF Government in Kerala today announced a ban on the manufacture and sale of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco in the state with immediate effect. Announcing the decision at a press conference here, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said …
Tobacco-related diseases killed as many as 100,000 people every year and nearly 1,200 children start smoking every day in Pakistan because of government inaction, health experts agreed on Tuesday. They were addressing a seminar on the 'Role of Media for Advancing Tobacco Control'. Criticising the government inaction on tobacco control …
Whereas, regulation 2.3.4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 made by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (i) of sub-section (2) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (Central …
Assam is likely to be the first state in the country to expand the central anti-tobacco campaign to all its districts, with Jorhat as the role model. Satisfied with the performance of the National Tobacco Control Programme in Jorhat, the Centre has asked the state government to start the drive …
Most of the smokers feel encouraged to keep on this bad habit because of easy availability and comparatively lower prices of tobacco products, says a survey report. The government’s present and former officials, who attended the launch of the report, however, said it was not always possible to reduce the …
Bulgaria's parliament has adopted a total ban on smoking in indoor public places, after earlier attempts failed due to strong opposition from restaurant owners. The ban, which was approved yesterday and comes into force on June 1, has stirred discontent among many Bulgarians, at least 40 percent of whom are …
Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year. More than 600,000 people are exposed to passive smoking. Unless the countries take action promptly to arrest tobacco use, the death rate will rise to eight million people …
India is home of the largest population of patients with tuberculosis and tobacco users in the world. Smokeless tobacco use exceeds smoking and is increasing. There is no study to dater that reports smokeless tobacco use before and after the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. The researchers assessed smokeless tobacco …
Jorhat, April 29: Asam Sahitya Sabha, the premier literary organisation of the state has decided to join the anti-tobacco campaign of the state tobacco control cell. Sabha general secretary Paramananda Rajbonshi told The Telegraph over phone from Guwahati today that since tobacco is consumed as part of social traditions in …
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court in an important direction has directed the state government to now consider the appropriateness of restricting the consumption, sale and distribution of tobacco and nicotine in food products on the same lines as the MP government has already put restrictions on the consumption, sale and …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has directed schools and other educational institutions to stop the sale of tobacco and other tobacco products within 100 yards of any educational institutions and also to minors. The civic administration will now take stringent steps to ensure that no tobacco products are sold outside …
