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: Cancers caused by tobacco is highest among men from Kolkata and least among those from Mumbai, in the four metropolitan cities. Among women, tobacco related cancers were highest in those from Chennai and least among women in Delhi. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research’s “Cancer associated …
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 …
The Chief Ministers of 11 States have pledged their support to fight the growing menace of tobacco products like gutka and khaini . The month-long activity that started in May included tobacco abuse victims along with oncologists meeting their respective Chief Ministers and urging them to protect the people of …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, tobacco chewing is on the rise. It has increased by 0.1% as compared to smoking. In the state, around 18.9% of the total population chews tobacco while 18.8% population smokes. The figures were released by the World Health Organization last week. Asthma and tobacco specialist Dr Virendra …
GUWAHATI: Tobacco consumption poses serious health hazards. The District Tobacco Control Cell is waging a war against tobacco use. With the objective of creating awareness among people, the District Tobacco Control Cell had organized an orientation programme on tobacco control and its implementation recently, in collaboration with the Kaliram Barua …
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with nine new health warnings for cigarette packs, to be introduced from September 2012. Various countries already have such warnings, and some of them attribute reduced tobacco use to these. India has faced hurdles introducing visuals more graphic than those …
CHENNAI: The best way to bid adieu to tobacco is perhaps to ensure that those who give it up are rewarded. At Abirami Mall, five volunteers who offered to quit smoking on Sunday received free entry to one of its popular entertainment stalls. The mall's executive director Nallammai Ramanathan said …
More than two decades after the gas leak in Bhopal, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported a higher incidence of cancer in affected areas
In probably the first such large-scale study of its kind, Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, in collaboration with the ministry of health proved that bidis and other forms of tobacco (supari, gutkha, among others) are more harmful than cigarettes. The study had a follow-up period of 5.5 years with as …
Cancer patients, who are victims of oral tobacco abuse, have written to social activist Anna Hazare seeking his intervention to pressurise the Union Government to hasten the implementation of pictorial warnings on tobacco products to ensure that youngsters don't fall prey to them.
Projections of the incidence of cancer serve several purposes. These range from making investment decisions on cancer treatment facilities and planning manpower requirements, to formulation and evaluation of policies for control of cancer. Different statistical methods can be used for such projections. In recent years, these have been translated to …
Leaders in oncology from across the country have for the first time come together to join the war against smokeless tobacco, believed to be behind 96% of oral cancer cases in India. The heads of 17 regional cancer centres, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have urged Prime Minister Manmohan …
BHUBANESWAR: A grim future awaits the state. The women folk in the State have developed a penchant for tobacco products like betel quid with tobacco and gutkha. In four years, around 5 per cent more women have joined the current tobacco-chewers' fraternity. This affinity for the smokeless tobacco bodes ill …
NEW DELHI: Health activists campaigning against the tobacco industry are concerned at its continuing defiance of the Indian tobacco control laws. Even though the government mandates a prominent display of mouth cancer warnings on all tobacco product packages from this past December 1, old weak warnings continue to be on …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS CHEWING tobacco is no better than smoking when it comes to the ill health effects. But a research done on 65,000 persons in the districts of Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram has revealed that more than 12 per cent of those studied, above the age group of 20, …
This Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 compares the magnitude and patterns of cancer between areas affected by the methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak and the unaffected areas of Bhopal. This report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 …
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey India (GATS India) is the global standard for systematically monitoring adult tobacco use (smoking and smokeless) and tracking key tobacco control indicators. Global Adult Tobacco Survey India was carried out in all 29 states of the country and 2 Union Territories of Chandigarh and Puducherry, …
Liffy Thomas and R. Sujatha NGOs and State government have played a pivotal role in taking home the message about ills of using tobacco Smoke free: Several buildings are becoming
