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 …
Himachal Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (HPVHA) - an NGO working to make the state tobacco-free, has come out strongly against state government’s plan to allow beedi and cigarette units to set up base in Hamirpur district. The organisation has alleged that the move will completely jeopardise the drive to discourage …
Expressing doubts over timely implementation of effective pictorial health warnings from December 1, various non-government organisations working in the area of tobacco control have written to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad requesting him to issue operational guidelines for its enforcement. “While we appreciate the Union Health Ministry's effort for …
Three years after implementation of the no-smoking rules that came into effect on October 2, 2008, over 42,194 people have been fined/challaned and over Rs.30 lakh has been collected by the Delhi Government from defaulters. According to the data collected by the Delhi State Tobacco Control Cell, of those challaned, …
Steps are under way to restrict the use of plastic materials, especially plastic carry bags, as part of implementing the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest's (MoEF) Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2011 that replaces the earlier Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules 1999. Municipal authorities here had started …
This atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control documents the magnitude of the problem, using global cardiovascular mortality and morbidity data. It demonstrates the inequities in access to protection, exposure to risk, and access to care as the cause of major inequalities between countries and populations in the occurrence and …
Government agencies not taking action against defaulters: study More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches for sale of tobacco products came into effect on March 1 this year, small and big manufacturers of pan masala and chewing tobacco are still violating the rule openly, a …
The United Nations will begin debating Monday how to stem a proliferation of chronic diseases that a new report says could cost the global economy trillions of dollars over the next two decades if left unchecked. The two-day meeting on noncommunicable diseases, as illnesses from heart disease to cancer, diabetes …
As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health authorities in India. Some of them expressed concern that the meeting may be used to push industry agenda.
PANJIM: General Secretary of the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication, (NOTE) has written to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to take part in a high level committee United Nations meeting on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. “We write to request your esteemed participation and contribution to the …
Reacting to the sessions conducted by experts at the Punjab Pollution Control Board’s (PPCB) workshop held recently, where it was stated that it was wrong to label Punjab as the cancer capital of the country, NGO Kheti Virasat Mission claimed the experts had come with a preconceived notion that the …
Just 14 percent of New York City adults said they were smokers in 2010, the lowest level since the city began tracking the smoking rate nearly two decades ago, according to a survey released on Thursday. The drop was particularly steep among young adults, which suggested, experts said, that a …
Next time you brush your teeth, be careful. Some popular toothpastes and toothpowders in India have high levels of nicotine, a known carcinogen, a study has found. Researchers at the Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (DIPSAR) tested 10 toothpowders and 24 toothpastes brands. They found large amounts of …
More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches containing tobacco products by a Supreme Court verdict came into effect, which stated that manufacturers of gutkha, tobacco and pan masala are restrained from using plastic material in the sachets, the manufacturers of chewing tobacco and pan masala …
Cancer specialists and public health officials optimistic that incidence of cancer will come down With the Union Health Ministry categorising pan masala and gutka as banned food products because they contain tobacco, there is fresh hope among cancer specialists and public health officials that incidence of cancer caused by these …
GUWAHATI: More than five months after the Supreme Court issued a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic pouches with effect from March 1, all small and big manufacturers of chewing tobacco and pan masala are now violating the rule openly. This has been revealed in a recent …
Although India grows more than 10 per cent of the world's tobacco, our value share of the $11-billion global tobacco leaf export trade is only 5 per cent, according to a Tobacco Institute of India (TII) study. Explaining Indian tobacco's potential, the study said, “This is because exportable varieties (FCV …
The government of India has banned the sale of gutkha and other chewing tobacco products across the country. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued new regulations on August 1, prohibiting the use of tobacco and nicotine in any edible product. Health experts and civil society groups …
State won’t impose additional burden on common man, says finance minister KOLKATA, 29 AUG: The state government today increased sales tax on foreign liquor, indicated to impose higher VAT rates on tobacco-related products and rationalised stamp duties applicable on distribution of property through gifts or family settlements. Tabling the Finance …
This should come as a serious wake up call for female smokers. The risk of developing coronary heart disease is 25% higher for women smokers compared with men, according to a study published in the British medical journal ‘The Lancet’ on Thursday. The authors say this could be due to …
Cafe Mocha on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that hookahs are far less dangerous than cigarettes asthey contain less quantity of nicotine and are not easily available. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Girish Godbole was hearing petitions filed by Berry’s Hotel, which runs Mocha, …
