Smokers' alert

Deadly games

A new report accuses Big Tobacco of sabotaging WHO's efforts to fight smoking

A LETHAL BLOW

Cancerous spread

Malefactor!

Passive smoking adversely affects lung function of females

How effective?

Up in smoke

Tobacco majors get court relief

House rules

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Surgical site infections worsening globally

Surgical site infections are the third-most common hospital-acquired infections in the world

India’s burden of heart diseases: Study says elderly, women more at risk

About a third of the senior citizens have been diagnosed with hypertension, 5.2% with chronic heart disease and 2.7% with stroke  

SPREADING SMOKE

Strict US legislations are forcing cigarette companies to shift business to developing countries, where they are helped by lax laws and …

Smoky future

A US jury holds tobacco companies liable for manufacturing a product that causes lung cancer and other diseases

Polluted and ignored

Talk about air pollution in India and everybody thinks of the four metropolitan cities. But the ambient air quality in even smaller cities and …

Killer puff

Smoking killed 100 million men in last century

Nicotine: catch them young

Fleetingly scary

Film>> Tobacco, Threat to Life and Development directed by Mike Pandey 12 minutes

Parliamentary panel recommends reduction of pictorial warnings on tobacco products

The committee has taken the decision in view of the possible loss of livelihood of bidi workers and the increase in illicit trade of tobacco products

Up in smoke

US state governments misuse funds meant for curbing smoking; A US anti-tobacco negotiator quits

Smokescreen

Philip Morris remitted from paying record compensation

CHINA

Passive Payback

Statutory warning

Over 15 billion cigarettes are smoked everyday!

In short

Tobacco use by adults below 25 may soon become illegal

Government mulls changes in law to prevent surrogate ads by tobacco companies

THAILAND