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 …
The UN Educational, Social and Cultural Organization is convinced that the Nepalese are not taking proper care of their national landmarks which feature in the agency's World Heritage Site list. It has threatened to remove 7 of the prestigious sites, including the Pashupatinath temple and the 3 durbar squares of …
SMOKERS enjoy that puff while non- smokers in their vicinity suffer health hazards for no fault of theirs. In recognition of the ill-effects of plumes of smoke emanating from a smouldering cigarette between puffi, smokeless ashtrays were designed. Research into the effectiveness of these supposedly public-friendly ash-trays may give its …
THE smoke alarm is ringing vigorously across the globe. While in the US President Clinton in a dramatic assault on cigarette use - has declared nicotine a drug and ordered a crackdown on childhood smoking, in China the communist government has put a blanket ban on tobacco advertising (Down To …
A study conducted by a UK research group revealed that among women dying due to tobacco intake the world over, Scottish women figure on the top of the list. This is 2/3rds more than in the UK. Incidentally, smoking is one of the main causes of premature deaths in both …
Smoking in public places may soon become a punishable offence in Delhi. With effect to this, on August 7, Delhi state health minister Harsh Vardhan introduced a bill- christened as the "Delhi Prohibition of Smoking and Non-smokers Health Protection Bill" -in the legislative assembly. The first of its kind to …
AUSTRALIA is planning to resurrect hemp or Cannabis sativa, the -crop which once grew aplenty in the continent but was later abandoned by most farmers. Its high tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, which smokers reportedly find irresistible, led to widespread misuse of the crop. But its amazing potential - hemp is used …
In a fresh initiative against the menace of AIDS, the UN has launched a new US $140 million programme - the United Nations Programme on AIDS. It will brin4 together 6 preinier UN agencies to7 provide globally relevant policies on HIV/AIDS, help fill key research gaps and provide technical support …
AS THE world's leading producer and consumer of tobacco, China saw cigarette output and the number of smokers both increase by 3 per cent last year. China has 300 million smokers, which is more than the population of the us. o4owever, despite the booming business, tobacco barons of the country …
The vivacious "Made for Each Other" couple may vanish from highway hoardings, if the statement made on May 31 marking World No-Tobacco day, by the Union minister of state for health C Silvera, "to discourage" the use of tobacco, comes true. Explaining the move to introduce such a bill, director …
RESEARCHERS from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in A Oakland, California, have linked smoking with facial wrinkling among Whites and say that women may be more susceptible S, than men (American Journal of Public Health, Vol 85, No 1). The research team led by 00 Virginia L Ernster, decided on …
With a view to check the smoking menace, the Delhi High Court has issued show-cause notices to the Central and the Delhi governments. They have been asked to explain why a petition seeking the ban of smoking in public places -- filed by Rajesh Chawla, a cardiologist and president of …
This is a classic case of perverting dialectics: the coming together of class enemies in a smoking party. Leading cigarette manufacturers of the country are orchestrating a high profile public relations exercise against the proposed bill to enforce a countrywide ban on advertising tobacco products. And none but the Marxists …
ONE person dies of smoking every 10 seconds somewhere in the world, but the worst is yet to come, reveals a recent study. Richard Peto of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, UK, one of the authors of the study, who was recently in Delhi to attend the 16th …
Now in the US if a passenger lights up during a flight, the purser may sue the manufacturer for "health problems" caused by passive smoking. The ruling, passed by a Miami judge, has triggered off a fracas between the anti-smoking lobby and tobacco firms. The Miami suit tests whether tobacco …
A piece of good news for those who cannot give up smoking -- take a lot of vitamin C and you could avert heart and lung diseases caused by cigarette smoke (Nature, Vol 370, No 6489). A team of German and US scientists successfully tested the hypothesis on hamsters exposed …
Cigarette smoke makes a small but detectable contribution to smog, reveals a study conducted by Glen Class, an environmental engineer at the California Institute of Technology. The study reveals that cigarette smoke comprises 1 to 1.3 per cent of the fine particles polluting the air around Los Angeles. Although Class …
AS THE link between cigarette smoking and cancer and heart disease is more firmly established, scientists are increasingly looking at the impact a parent's smoking has on both the unborn and the growing offspring. Two recent studies reveal that not only does a mother's active smoking expose her young children …
CONTRARY to common belief, the main culprit of the "sick building syndrome" is neither cigarette smoke nor polluted air wafting in from outside. It is the increased airborne fibres from ceilings, insulation, ventilation duct linings and other construction materials, says a recent study (Environmental Science and Technology, Vol 28, No …
IN THIS age of the media, images are too quickly ingrained into popular imagination. If someone were to tell you that smoking, which has been shown to cause heart disease and lung cancer, may protect against disease, then you would surely think the person is either a fag-fanatic or downright …
SCIENTISTS at the Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) say a healthy diet rich in spinach and other leafy green vegetables offers protection against cancer of the mouth. Their studies also show that certain vitamins and minerals taken regularly can retard the development of malignant oral cancers. The team of …
