How smoking causes cancer

Researchers discover the cellular reactions that trigger tumours

A brush with cancer

Housepaints can increase bladder cancer rate

Researchers find more reasons to quit smoking

Death due to renal failure and intestinal ischemia associated with smoking

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MONEYMAKERS

The shifting smoke of tobacco

Best among the worst

WHO identifies top 10 health risk factors

Low exposure, high risk

Finds study on common contaminants

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Government for raising awareness on tobacco’s role in TB

A section on tobacco consumption added to the national programme for TB control

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Australia pulls out Indian gutka ad

Kamla Pasand had boundary line advertisements in India-Australia matches

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Is UN giving in to industry?

UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments

Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

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The new obesity

A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours of workout. Evidence shows that the …

Neo-addiction

Youngsters are getting hooked on flavoured e-cigarettes. Studies belie manufacturers’ claims

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Mounting Evidence, Collapsing Public Health

LIC’s unhealthy choice

Life Insurance Corporation invested more than Rs 3,500 crore last year in the tobacco industry 

India Exposed!

It is unimaginable. Air quality in most Indian cities is at critical levels. And the culprit - respirable particulates - are way above danger …

Smoked out

Pictorial warnings still missing from cigarette and chewing tobacco packets

No tobacco product sampled in Delhi had new warning mandated from April 1, says survey by non-profit

Unholy smoke!

Inclusion of intellectual property in bilateral investment agreements is injurious to the health of developing nations