THE UN General Assembly has adopted a watered-down political declaration to reduce the burden of chronic lifestyle diseases. The event signals the beginning of a larger fight between industry and health policy makers. The resolution was passed at a summit ahead of the General Assembly in New York on September …
Philip Morris International, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is trying to force a British university to reveal details of its research involving thousands of children aged between 11 and 16 about their attitudes towards smoking and cigarette packaging. The demands from the tobacco company, made using the UK’s Freedom of …
A new study has found that getting motivational text messages can help smokers quit the habit. The study published in the Lancet found smokers are twice as likely to give up cigarettes when receiving the motivational texts. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine put 5,800 smokers …
Most readers might find it difficult to credit what follows. This is a story of how bilateral and multilateral investment treaties are being used to satisfy corporate greed, how large corporations, even those in the unsavoury business of selling cigarettes, can sue countries for passing public health laws intended to …
PAINTERS and those working in the construction industry are at a risk of developing bladder cancer, according to a report that reviewed the case studies of 3,000 painters with bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is the ninth most common form of cancer that claims 130,000 lives a year worldwide, according to …
This latest CPCB report provides details of the monitoring study conducted to measure Ozone levels, VOCs including carbonyls in ambient air in the city of Kolkata. It also includes recommendations for control of VOCs releases. Volatile Organic Compounds or VOCs play an important role in tropospheric chemistry byaffecting the OH …
April 8: In India, with an estimated 12 crore smokers, only two per cent manage to quit the tobacco habit, as compared to 40 per cent in the United States and Europe. Though the age of smoking initiation is higher in Indians, the quitting habit is rare. According to a …
Tobacco use is predicted to result in over 1 billion deaths worldwide by the end of the 21st century. How genetic variation contributes to the observed differential predisposition in the human population to drug dependence is unknown. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an emerging vertebrate model system for understanding the …
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on to tobacco, smoke more cigarettes and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction to smoking and how …
The tobacco farmers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on Friday demanded rollback of the Government's decision to increase the excise duty on non-filter cigarettes. The Union Health Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss has been trying hard to force people quit smoking and the decision to increase the excise duty is one in …
CT Screening for Lung Cancer Small print at the end of the study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, noted that it had been financed in part by a little-known charity called the Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention & Treatment. A review of tax records by …
Mayor M. Subramanian on Saturday urged more city colleges to join the list of certified tobacco-free institutions. Speaking at a function to distribute
From June 24, all packets of tobacco products will carry pictorial warnings in a bid to deter people from smoking. The Union health ministry has issued the final notification, according to which 40% of the space on tobacco packs will have to carry the warnings. While cigarette and beedi packs …
Minister for Information and Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi on Tuesday told Lok Sabha that the Government planned to take action against surrogate advertising resorted to by tobacco and liquor companies. According to a recent notification (dated February 25, 2008) that amended the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, no advertisement would …
Bollywood has often had its knuckles rapped for its on-screen portrayal of tobacco use, but no one would expect the country's premier medical institute, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, to turn into a "safe zone' for sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Under the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products …
A simple discussion of lung capacity appears to double the rate patients follow a doctor's advice to quit smoking. Effect on Smoking Quit Rate of Telling Patients Their Lung Age: The Step2quit Randomised controlled trial (BMJ)A study published online March 7 in the British journal BMJ suggests that if a …
Packs of cigarette and beedi or hand-rolled cigars will carry pictorial warnings but not grisly depictions of mouth ulcerations due to cancer, a group of ministers decided after a meeting here Tuesday evening. The ministers also decided that the size and the picture content - of a scorpion or lung …
The Diabetic Association of Bangladesh on Thursday observed Diabetes Awareness Day to mark its 52nd founding anniversary. Experts, at a question-answer session, said some cautious food habits, physical exercise, quitting smoking and reducing mental stress could reduce the risk to diabetics. The association president, AK Azad Khan, said people should …
