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 …
Smoking in Russia will be banned from restaurants, long-distance trains and housing block entrance halls under a tough new bill passed by parliament. Just one deputy in the State Duma voted against the legislation, which expands a 2001 smoking law. It is now expected to be passed by the upper …
Pilot Project To Be Implemented In 2,400 Schools Across State Thiruvananthapuram: A comprehensive action plan, for tobacco control sensitization (TCS) programme at schools, homes and public places, has been finalized jointly by the health, education and police departments. A meeting of senior officials from these departments held here on Thursday …
The J&K; Government has said that it is considering banning the use of gutkha, pan masala and tobacco products in the state. The views of the Finance Department are being sought as the ban involves huge financial implications. This has been indicated by the government in its response to a …
Introducing laws banning smoking in enclosed public places can lead to swift and dramatic falls in the number of children admitted to hospital suffering asthma attacks, according to a study in England published on Monday. Researchers at Imperial College London found there was a 12.3 percent fall in hospital admissions …
The State government seems to be getting its act together on COTPA — Control of Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003, which came into effect 10 years ago. Besides engaging the Home Department for the purpose, it is understood the Institute of Public Health has been appointed as nodal …
Bangladesh unveiled a "Death Clock" in its capital to raise awareness about smoking-related deaths in a country which ranks among the world's highest in tobacco consumption. Around 57,000 people die annually from tobacco-related diseases in Bangladesh, on average 156 people per day, said Sayed Badrul Karim from the Progga NGO, …
‘40% Of Smokers Want To Quit The Habit’ Jaipur: Alarmed over several deaths reported in the state due to cancer caused by tobacco consumption, the medical, health and family welfare department has launched a massive anti-tobacco awareness campaign in rural Rajasthan, which is one of the biggest campaign in the …
Expressing dismay over the government’s inaction, the Supreme Court today restored the ban imposed on the advertisements on cigarettes and other tobacco products under a law enacted by Parliament in 2003. A Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and Gyan Sudha Misra said the stay granted by the Bombay High Court …
Death Clock, a billboard counting death of 156 people in Bangladesh every day due to tobacco uses, set up at Bijoy Smarani in the capital, is waiting for inauguration shortly, according to anti-tobacco campaigners. As 57,000 people die in Bangladesh each year for tobacco consumption and so Death Clock counted …
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 - Islamabad—The federal capital district administration has decided to launch anti-smoking awareness campaign in collaboration with the civil society, traders and educationists. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Islamabad Aamir Ali Ahmed, talking to INP, said that Rs1,000 to Rs100,000 fine could be imposed on the v iolator of …
The government has started the implementation of the Tobacco Control with the beginning of the new year. The Tobacco Control Act stipulates measures to control use of tobacco including prohibition of growing and advertising tobacco and tobacco products, how such products could be imported and exported, how they can be …
According to a recent survey conducted by NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation in Mumbai, 94% of the 2500 respondents are in favor of the ban on gutkha & paan masala in Maharashtra. One of the main reasons why citizens feel the ban is essential is because of the correlation between tobacco …
MARGAO: South Goa District Collector N D Agrawal on Tuesday said that teachers have a pivotal role to mould students and ensure a tobacco free society. Speaking at the district level workshop on Tobacco Free Educational Institutions at the Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, Agrawal said teachers play an important role in …
According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer. Around 65 per cent of the air pollution deaths occur in Asia and close to quarter of this in India. Reacting …
According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer. Around 65 per cent of the air pollution deaths occur in Asia and close to quarter of this in India. Reacting …
Study published by Lancet says surge in car use in south and east Asia killed 2.1m people prematurely in 2010 An explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world's fastest growing cause of death according to …
Hill States Have Highest Rates Of Diabetes, Hypertension New Delhi: Surprising trends have emerged from the health ministry’s first-ever large-scale study to check for diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) by actually testing blood samples from the country’s general population. In the first phase of the study that checked 1.06 …
India needs to wake up to the threat from rising air pollution, which has been declared as one of the top 10 killers in the world by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, which tracks deaths and illnesses from all causes across the world. According to the latest GBD, …
Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease analysis. No complete revision of global disease burden caused by risk factors has been done since a comparative risk assessment in 2000, and no previous …
JAIPUR: The state government is taking measures to make Jaipur smoke-free city by the end of this financial year through effective implementation of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Product Act (COTPA) 2003. Under a special campaign, the medical and health department, in collaboration with city police, have issued challans to over …
