'Tobacco not only injurious to health but also a major source of radiation exposure'

Alok Srivastava, physical and nuclear chemist who is the co-author of a study on radioactive Polonium in tobacco, talks about how the …

World no tobacco day: Tobacco impacts environment, not just health

About 3.5 million hectares of land cleared for growing tobacco each year

Tobacco hurts more than just your lungs – it damages the communities that grow it

Despite the 2005 WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and falling smoking rates, global population growth means total tobacco use …

Government schools encouraging healthier lifestyles: study

The onset of many lifestyle or non-communicable diseases can be prevented or delayed by addressing these risk factors earlier in life

Tobacco consumption rising among Indian TB patients: India TB 2020 report

Though notification of tuberculosis goes up, more than 0.5 million patients still missing  

How government policies are putting our hearts at risk

The food we eat poses the biggest risk to the heart, yet the processed food industry is allowed to sell food high on fats, salt and sugar without …

Government for raising awareness on tobacco’s role in TB

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

Australia pulls out Indian gutka ad

Kamla Pasand had boundary line advertisements in India-Australia matches