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 …
Tobacco use kills one person every six seconds: Rasika Somarathna Secondhand smoke cause * Lung cancer * Heart disease * Sudden infant death syndrome * Low birth weight * Serious respiratory conditions The government is planning to bring in two important pieces of legislation which when implemented, could result in …
No fresh taxes except on tobacco products y VAT on cooking gas, fertilisers goes y Sops for IT, science, Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today presented a "zero deficit" budget for 2012-13. Except proposing a hike on tobacco products and liquor, the Finance Minister announced various sops for the common …
A team of doctors on Monday confirmed that most workers of a tea estate, where death due to malnutrition have been alleged by a rights body, were suffering from it. The team, consisting of doctors from Civil Hospital, Cachar Cancer Hospital and Kalyani Hospital, examined about 500 patients of Bhuvan …
The carcinogenic property of tobacco is well known, even as the production and consumption of tobacco products is popularized worldwide. While the ‘smoking way’ of consumption of tobacco causes high risk of lung carcinoma, the ‘oral way’ primarily poses risk of oral carcinoma in addition to leukoplakia, erythroplakia, submucosal fibrosis, …
The Punjab government here today formally declared Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) as the first “smoke free” district of Punjab. Satish Chandra, Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare, Punjab while announcing the decision said that earlier, on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2011, the Government had …
Clarifying that gutka is a food product, the health ministry will soon issue instructions to the states against allowing use of tobacco-laced gutka or pan masala. “It has now been established beyond doubt that gutka is a food product and falls under the Prevention of Food Adultration Law. The Supreme …
Smokers can greatly cut down the risk of disease and death by replacing cigarettes with their smokeless version. They provide a much safer alternative to smokers, because they continue to deliver nicotine without the harmful effect of smoking, says Brad Rodu, professor of medicine from the University of Louisville (UofL), …
The Health Ministry is in favour of banning smokeless forms of tobacco which are being used by 25 per cent of the population and are known to contain chemical components with serious implications for human health. Answering a query on the sidelines of the launch of “Tobacco kills your baby”, …
The district administration has stepped up efforts to make Ernakulam tobacco-free. An official release issued here on Tuesday said that the administration has tightened enforcement of tobacco control laws in the district giving special focus on how to protect children and adolescents from the adverse impact of tobacco use. Training …
Every year 5.6 million people died in the world due to tobacco. This was stated by Tobacco Control cell Hyderabad in a seminar on Monday. Addressing to the seminar, the Hyderabad Press Club President, Jaffar Memon said that tobacco is the second biggest reason of deaths in the world and …
This time, when the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) chooses the new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products they will have to be extra careful. With the earlier photo — a blurred image that appeared to be resembling footballer John Terry — creating trouble, the Union health …
Indian activists applaud Australian Government for timely action. Anti-tobacco activists in India have welcomed the move by an anti-tobacco lobby, Action on Smoking and Health, in Australia which alerted and pressurised Cricket Australia to immediately remove a surrogate advertisement by an Indian company promoting gutka in Australia. “The advertisement of …
After Budgam district of central Kashmir was declared as tobacco-free, Srinagar district is to follow the suit by imposing similar restrictions in all the educational institutions to make the summer capital tobacco-free.
The World Cancer Day will be observed in Bangladesh today with no government programmes, while about 1.5 lakh people die of cancer every year in the country. The government has chalked up no programmes to mark the day demonstrating its negligence in combating the deadly disease, experts said. According to …
This publication recognize the challenges and constraints faced by city dwellers in making heart healthy choices, particularly children. It also dispel the myth that cardiovascular (CVD) can be prevented through “simple” behaviour changes. To address the worldwide burden posed by CVD and to ensure sustainable development in cities, the report …
On August 1, 2011 the movement for banning chewing tobacco in India saw a turn in its favour. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), a statutory body under the health ministry to handle food-related issues, notified a new regulation called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and …
A response to “A Rational Taxation System of Bidis and Cigarettes to Reduce Smoking Deaths in India” (EPW, 15 October 2011). It is important to first have better information on the production of tendu leaves and bidis, and then to correct the prices of inputs (including wages) if tax policies …
The district administration will soon adopt stringent measures to curb the sale and use of tobacco and tobacco-based products in the vicinity of educational institutions. Complying with the directions of the Health Department, the sale of such products has been banned within a radius of 400 yards from educational institutions. …
NGOs have claimed that recent reports suggesting that one of the pictorial warnings for tobacco products resembles footballer John Terry could be an attempt by the manufacturers to scuttle the pictorial warnings once again. In a recent RTI filed by the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), the issue was …
