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 …
Children exposed to their parents' smoking may soon begin suing them. A recently-released report by Eugene Arocca, a partner at the Australia-based Maurice Blackburn Cashman, says that the focus in tobacco litigation in Australia will soon shift from exposure in the workplace to family law and the hospitality industry. He …
in a bid to improve its public image, us tobacco giant Lorillard Tobacco Company has launched a nationwide smoking prevention programme for the youth. Under the national tobacco settlement that was reached last November by 46 us states and territories and the major players of the tobacco industry, the latter …
Somehow the tobacco industry has been with us for the last three months or so. When Dietrich Schwela, the World Health Organization's (who) urban health expert based in Geneva, came to participate in a workshop organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) on urbanisation and environment, he repeatedly …
Each resident of Delhi is familiar with it. And when friends and relatives from the smaller cities and towns of India come visiting, they hardly miss an opportunity to remind the residents of the extreme pollution in the capital. The time has now come for Delhiwallahs to start pointing out …
Air quality from 26 monitoring stations in nine small cities and towns shows that they have caught up, and in some cases exceeded the maximum levels of suspended particulate matter even in highly polluted Delhi
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the Western World. For effective treatment and prevention strategies to be put in place, the major risk factors associated with this disease must be identified. Data show that almost 300 variables are statistically associated with CHD. However, evidence suggests …
a detailed proposal to halve the percentage of smokers by 2010 was unveiled recently by the Japanese government. This is for the first time that the health and welfare ministry has set numerical targets in its effort to control cigarette smoking. It plans to force tobacco companies reveal more information …
in three months, lighting up a cigarette in Spain's domestic flights and inter-city buses will be regarded as a serious offence. The government has announced a decision to ban smoking on all domestic flights and buses, and impose tighter restrictions on trains and ferries. Earlier, smoking was allowed on domestic …
malboro , 555, Camel... cigarette shops stock them all for the increasingly brand-conscious Indian urban smoker. Foreign cigarette brands, which were available in select stores till a few years ago, are now being stored by almost every cigarette vendor. And they are no longer a "luxury' few could afford. As …
"the Marlboro man just fell off his high horse into quicksand and it will be years until the tobacco industry even gets him halfway out,'' said Ahron Leichtman, executive director of Citizens for a Tobacco-Free Society, a non-governmental organisation. He was commenting on a jury decision taken in Florida on …
The Kerala High Court has passed an order banning smoking in public places in the state. While responding to a public interest petition, the court directed the district collectors in the state to implement the ban within one month. The ban will be effective in government buildings, bars, restaurants, bus …
Iraq has agreed to allow a United Nations (UN) team of experts into the country to remove toxic substances left behind in Baghdad by disarmament inspectors. UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's special envoy to Iraq, Prakash Shah, said Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, notified him of approval for the visit. …
Millions of dollars are being spent annually to treat patients with two diseases caused mainly by cigarette smoking, according to a new study by Thailand's Chiang Mai University scholar Chaiananthorn Patumanond. The conclussions are based on a study of about 2,000 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( copd ) …
Should cigarettes have a low or high tar certification? Should the court be approached to force cigarette companies to make safer cigarettes for the general public? There are reasons for asking these questions. The Supreme Court has given top priority to health while ordering car manufacturers to observe emission norms …
a state jury in Portland, Oregon, usa, has ordered tobacco giant Philip Morris Co to pay us $81 million to the family of a man who smoked Marlboro cigarettes for four decades before he died. The man, Jesse Williams, died in 1997, five months after he was diagnosed with lung …
australian scientists are working to produce the world's first smokeless cigarette. It will allow smokers to inhale nicotine much like an ordinary cigarette but will have no smoke
Doctors know that children whose mothers smoke have a higher risk of smoking during their adolescence, but they are yet to find out why. However, a recent study says it probably involves the learning of flavours. A variety of flavours are transmitted from the mother's diet to the baby through …
" giving up smoking is easy. I've given it up many times,' Mark Twain had said once about a smoker's predicament. For a smoker, nicotine is not just about a mild kick. Simply looking at a cigarette, or even smelling one induces a craving. But now, they can fight back, …
US Tobacco companies are finally being made to foot the medical bill of smokers across the country. Forty-six states in the US and cigarette-makers have unanimously agreed on a US $206 billion resolution of tobacco health claims.Christine Gregoire, who led the negotiations for the states, said that the settlement with …
Brain scans confirm what smokers insist: cigarettes improve concentration. Elizabeth Quattrocki of the McLean Hospital in USA, asked four smokers not to smoke for 24 hours. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, she scanned the brains of these volunteers and four nonsmokers as they answered questions about some pictures. Both groups …
