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 …
Back then, it was the epitome of macho style. Grey-haired daddies puffed on pipes, villains bit off cigars and Amitabh even made the bidi look hep when he lit one in Deewar. When he played Don in 1978, he smoked his role and no one batted an eyelid. When Shah …
Maharashtra is one of the highest users of tobacco in the country with 43 per cent adult males and 19 per cent adult females addicted to it. The findings were published in the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in Maharashtra released here on Friday. According to the survey, the average age …
Maharashtra government is contemplating a ban on gutka and pan masala products, Deputy Chief Minister and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar said here today. "It does not matter even if we face a loss of Rs 100 crore in tax from gutka and pan masala. Compromising with the lives of …
World No Tobacco Day was observed on Thursday. The focus this year was on addressing interference by the tobacco industry. According to World Health Organisation, the industry has been using intimidating tactics to counter the curb on use of tobacco. One gets a good understanding of tobacco influence and the …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tobacco is being used in a wide variety of ways in India, either as smokeless tobacco as chewing pan, pan masala or gutka, and ‘mishri’ (a powdered tobacco rubbed on the gums as toothpaste) or as tobacco smoke such as cigarettes, beedi, cigars etc. Tobacco consumption accounts for half …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are people who have been exposed to second-hand smoke (passive smoking). World No Tobacco Day is …
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 …
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 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 …
SHILLONG: The rise in the number of cancer cases in Meghalaya with a total of 2620 reported cases during the last five years is a matter of concern for the State Government, said Meghalaya Health Minister Rowell Lyngdoh. The disease in on the rise and the State Government has taken …
District Collector P.G. Thomas has said that tobacco use is a habit that does no good but brings misery to society. “Therefore the habit has to be given up” he said while launching the “Tobacco-free Kollam” scheme at a function here on Thursday. The harm of tobacco use was that …
A recent test on gutka packets by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revealed that most tobacco packets contain the banned toxic chemical magnesium carbonate, the quantity of which is as high as seven per cent. According to oncologists, magnesium carbonate can cause unusual health risks, which include stomach …
Cancer deaths accounted for six per cent of deaths across all ages, but among the 30-69 years age group this rose to eight per cent of the 25 lakh total male deaths and 12 per cent of the 16 lakh total female deaths. In men aged between 30 and 69, …
Cancer killed 5,56,400 people across the country in 2010. The 30-69 age group accounted for 71 per cent (3,95,400) of the deaths. In 2010, cancer alone accounted for 8 per cent of the 2.5 million total male deaths and 12 per cent of the 16 million total female deaths in …
Cancer caused 5,56,400 deaths in the country in 2010 and 71 per cent of those who died were aged between 30 and 69 years, according to findings of the Million Death Study, one of the largest studies ever of premature mortality in India. Associate professor at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, …
Cancer has resulted in about six lakh deaths in India in 2010. And over 70 percent of these deaths occurred in the productive age between 30 and 69 years, said a nationally representative survey – “Cancer mortality in India”. The three most common fatal cancers in men were oral, stomach …
