Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
NEW DELHI: The depiction of new and more stringent pictorial warnings on tobacco products has been deferred by six months to December 1 from the earlier scheduled date of June 1. A notification issued here earlier this week by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that while the …
Strict measures are required to stop the sale of highly carcinogenic substances writes FREDDY DIAS The consumption of paan masala and gutka (flavoured mixtures of
The air quality in some public places in the city that includes restaurants, bars and pubs, is harmful, says a study conducted by the Voluntary Health Organisation of India in association with Cancer Foundation of India. The study has also implied that ban on smoking could not be enforced in …
The air quality in hotels and restaurants in Calcutta that follow anti-smoking laws is much worse than in similar eateries in the rest of the country, a study conducted in 214 establishments across 16 cities has revealed.
As with problem drinking, gambling, and narcotics use population studies show consistently that a large majority of smokers who permanently stop smoking do so without any form of assistance. In 2003, some 20 years after the introduction of cessation pharmacotherapies, smokers trying to stop unaided in the past year were …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya, with 32 per cent tobacco users, stands fifth on the list of top tobacco-consuming states in the country where 2500 people die due to tobacco consumption everyday. As per official records, most northeastern states are among the highest tobacco-consuming states with Mizoram leading the tally with 61 per …
AFTER a two year debate over the content of pictorial warnings of tobacco products, the warnings will final see the light of day on Ma 31, in accordance with an undertaking given by the Union Health Ministry to the Supreme Court. While pictures of
Throughout the world, as use of manufactured cigarettes has dropped, the tobacco industry has taken steps to diversify its product offerings with the overall goal of assuring a steady market of nicotine addicted people.
Smoking causes lung cancer and is implicated in a dozen other cancers, but scientists have generally dismissed its importance in breast cancer, saying it plays little role, if any. In a report issued on Thursday, the panel asserted that evidence from new studies strongly suggests that smoking increases the risk …
Noted expert on tobacco control, Dr Prakash C Gupta today focused on tobacco consumption in the Indian context and underlined the need for a rethink in control strategies. Delivering the Dr KC Borooah Foundation day oration at the Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute, Gupta remarked that the tobacco problem in …
Media can be a powerful social tool to do this CHENNAI: Tobacco control should be made a part of disease-control activities in order for it to succeed, V.Shanta, chairman, Cancer Institute (WIA), said. The strategy must have an end goal with a time frame in which to achieve it. For …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo According to WHO reports, young adolescents have been shown to lose the elasticity of their arteries if they are passive smokers, setting the stage for early heart attacks in adulthood
