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 …
20 years ago Philip Morris, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes, notes in its annual report to shareholders that the company accounted for just 7% of worldwide cigarette sales, but added determinedly that "since our share of most international cigarette markets is still far below our US level, we have considerable …
A protein responsible for repairing damaged DNA may be a vital link to explaining how smoking causes lung cancer, US researchers reported on Tuesday. Lung cells exposed to cigarette smoke produce less of the protein, called FANCD2, the team at Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute reported. Without FANCD2, …
A protein responsible for repairing damaged DNA may be a vital link to explaining how smoking causes lung cancer, US researchers reported on Tuesday. Lung cells exposed to cigarette smoke produce less of the protein, called FANCD2, the team at Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute reported. Without FANCD2, …
more bad news for smokers. The cancer stick undermines the body's immune system, leaving it more susceptible to bacterial infections, shows new research. It is already known that smokers are more prone to infections and inflammatory diseases due to the hundreds of toxic components in cigarettes. Now researchers have found …
Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of black American smokers, is receiving special protection as Congress attempts to regulate tobacco for the first time. The legislation, which would give the Food and Drug Administration the power …
Delhi is slip ping off-track from its goal of becoming a smoke-free city by 2010. The report card of the last three months after the announcement of the plan suggests a lack of intent on the part of the government to achieve the target. The report for the months of …
Cigarettes are getting harder to find. More retail chains are dropping them, and for the first time, officials in a few states want to ban pharmacies from selling them. This month, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed an unprecedented city ban on drugstores selling tobacco products, including cigars, pipes and …
People who sleep fewer than six hours a night -- or more than nine -- are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies. The study also linked light sleepers to …
Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and shed the added risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday. Health Guide: Smoking
The government should impose higher tax on tobacco products to reduce their consumption, speakers suggested at a roundtable on Wednesday. Public health should get utmost importance in fixing tax rates, they said. There should be a holistic approach to reduce the consumption of such products, said economist Muzaffer Ahmed. Adulthood, …
A series of programmes, based on promotion of good health, concluded recently at Narengi Cantonment in the city. The programmes, launched on the occasion of World Health Day recently, was based on this year's theme
Among the cancer patients of the country, around 30 percent are suffering from head and neck cancer. Smoking, chewing tobacco leaves and taking alcohol cause high risk for mouth, vocal cord and lung cancer, specialists told a seminar in the city yesterday. ENT department of Medical College for Women and …
Beijing's smog can choke first-time arrivals. Then there's the pervasive cigarette smoke, so much a part of China's culture that more than half of all male doctors smoke. That's about to change. Starting Thursday, the Chinese capital finally joins other major cities in cracking down on smoking in most public …
The study, which is believed to be the first long-term, population-wide study into the links between deaths from diseases and atmospheric pollutants, examined figures from all 352 English local authorities. Researchers found a strong correlation between engine exhaust emissions and pneumonia deaths. The study estimated that every year, pollution-related pneumonia …
Cigarette vending machines that accept driver's licenses for age verification will be available in addition to those that read new smart cards known as taspo, sources said Sunday. The Finance Ministry is planning the move because the taspo card has drawn criticism, probably due to the procedures required to obtain …
"We will seek justice in the honourable High Court of Bombay" said Dr Shekhar Salkar, General Secretary of National Organization for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE). "Amitabh Bachchan was clearly shown smoking a cigar [in 'Family' film] in all the display-hoardings prominently. This amounts to clear and unambiguous breach of the law …
Several countries have used fi nancial incentives to encourage people to adopt healthier lifestyles with encouraging results. Now this approach has been suggested in a number of UK policy documents. But what is the evidence that it works? : a report.
A man smokes at a bar in Maryland. Smokers who drink heavily and have the genetic risk factor for Alzheimer?s get the disease nearly nine years earlier, a study finds. LARGE STUDY FINDS HIGH-CHOLESTEROL LINK Men and women in their early 40s with elevated blood cholesterol levels are more likely …
Mercifully there is a law in place completely banning cigarette advertisements, or else, this Supreme Court judgment could have dented the campaign of health minister Anbumani Ramadoss against film actors smoking in public. It set aside a national consumer forum directive to Godfrey Phillips India to discontinue all advertisements featuring …
