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 …
M Govinda Rao / New Delhi September 02, 2008, 0:09 IST The most important thing is to ban all forms of tobacco consumption in public places. By now, it is well established that tobacco is the single-most important contributor to non-communicable diseases in India. India has the second-largest number of …
The problem of easy availability and increasing use of smokeless tobacco products by young people of South Asian origin in the UK needs to be urgently addressed. Legislation exists, but is often flouted.
Deepsikha Cancer Care Foundation, an NGO working exclusively for cancer patients, has taken the initiative to make the common masses aware about the abuse of tobacco and its harmful effects. With this aim in view, it has opened its first branch of stop tobacco centre in the Deomornoi community health …
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80%, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency said. The review of 11 studies worldwide showed people who chewed tobacco and used snuff also had a 60% higher risk of …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called upon its member-countries to ban tobacco advertising to protect youth from taking to smoking. Studies have shown that most smokers in South-East Asia start tobacco consumption before the age of 18 years, and almost a quarter of them start using it even before …
Calling for a nation-wide campaign to demand a total ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the Heart Care Foundation of India has dubbed tobacco as the leading preventable cause of death in the world. Addressing a press conference here on the eve of World No Tobacco Day, Heart Care …
The stalls are fake, but the messages very real: "Stay away from tobacco abuse to stay healthy.' In an effort to drive home the message of healthy living without tobacco, a non-government organisation working in the areas of mental health, Manas Foundation, with support from the Union Health and Family …
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on to tobacco, smoke more cigarettes and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction to smoking and how …
From June 24, all packets of tobacco products will carry pictorial warnings in a bid to deter people from smoking. The Union health ministry has issued the final notification, according to which 40% of the space on tobacco packs will have to carry the warnings. While cigarette and beedi packs …
In the 20th century, the tobacco epidemic killed 100 million people worldwide. During the 21st century, it could kill one billion, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has come up with a six-policy package to counter the tobacco epidemic and reduce its deadly toll. In view of the global …
Director, Tobacco Institute of India It provides livelihood to 27 million people ANY proposal to cut tobacco cultivation should be viewed dispassionately and must recognise the unique position that tobacco cultivation occupies in the country. India is the world's third largest producer of tobacco, making it an extremely important commercial …
Preventable loss of life A NEW study has found that Indians are more susceptible to the harmful effects of tobacco and that the addiction is set to claim an overwhelming 10 lakh lives a year from 2010. No less a figure than Professor Amartya Sen has called for "immediate public …
The health and economic implications of tobacco merit review A survey on smoking habits in India has revealed that the country is in the grip of a smoking epidemic. According to the study, by the year 2010, smoking could kill over a million people annually and account for nearly one …
Americans are fond of complaining that they are "born free and taxed to death'. A new report from WHO recommends a public policy that would increase one particular form of taxation even further
Denis Fernander, Ribandar It cost A. Sharfudeen, a Tamilian, his voice box to realize that smoking is dangerous to health. Mr. Sharfudeen lost his voice box to smoking after a larynxectomy necessitated for removal of cancerous cell on his larynx. Now, he tours entire country to campaign against perils using …
Even more than tempting liquors like tequila, tobacco is a pleasure that the Old World wishes it had never taken from the New. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus was met by tribesmen with "fruit, wooden spears and certain dried leaves which gave off a distinct fragrance', he threw the last …
An increasing number of teenagers in India is taking to tobacco and nearly one million people die every year due to tobacco-related illnesses, says a new study by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The report titled
In Doubt Is Their Product, author David Michaels explains how many of the scientists who spun science for tobacco have become practitioners in the lucrative world of product defense. Whatever the story- global warming, toxic chemicals, sugar and obesity, secondhand smoke- these scientists generate studies designed to make dangerous exposures …
Nigeria sues Tobacco company: The Nigerian government has filed a lawsuit in the High Court of Abuja against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris International and International Tobacco Ltd. It has sought US $42.4 billion in reparations for damages the companies have caused to Nigerians' health. The government has demanded …
The incidence of stomach cancer in India is lower than that of any other country around the world. However, in Mizoram, one of the north-eastern state of India, a very high age-adjusted incidence of stomach cancer is recorded. A hospital-based case-control study was carried out to identify the influence of …
