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The fag end

Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013

The British government’s department of health is on a mission to dissuade smokers. In mid-January, it will launch a series of hard-hitting advertisements featuring people smoking cigarettes with a tumour growing from the end.

Killer puff

Issue Date: Dec 15, 2012

IT IS well known that smoking causes premature death and disability. Little data is, however, available on the number of such deaths in India.

Tax hike on cigarettes can prevent four million deaths in India: report

Author(s): Dinsa Sachan

Issue Date: Nov 22, 2012

A new report released by Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed that raising taxes on tobacco products can bring down its consumption and prevent millions of deaths worldwide, including about four million in India. The report warns that if such a price intervention is not made, smoking will eventually kill about 267 million current and future cigarette smokers in China, India, Phillippines, Thailand and Vietnam – five high-burden countries in Asia. Taking into account current epidemiological evidence, the team applied statistical measures to arrive upon results.

The new obesity

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

@vibhavarshney , Dinsa Sachan, Sonal Matharu

Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012

No Escape

Issue Date: Apr 15, 2002

PACKED off. A stunning US study has clinched the battle of evidence on what tiny particles in the air, mostly emitted by the combustion of fossil fuels do to human health. The industry had refused to admit the mounting scientific evidence that had emerged till now. But this study has come up with conclusive evidence. And has practically put the debate to rest.

Gasping millions

Issue Date: Jan 15, 2002

LIKE A FISH out of water, she chokes and gasps. Writhes. She struggles to snatch a lungful of air, while watching television she suddenly hits a vacuum. She is asthmatic. She is just about anybody. One of the 150 million that are reminded the hard way that life in today's world is just a breath away from turning into a statistical entry in the death register.

Polluted and ignored

Issue Date: Oct 31, 1999

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 that the air of most smaller cities and towns in India is as polluted as Delhi, or is fast becoming so, even if it does not attract wide public attention.