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Number of tobacco users continues to decrease globally: WHO

However, several countries are still not adequately implementing policies to help tobacco users to quit, the WHO said

Malignant malaise

Research finally establishes that smoking and lung cancer are directly proportional to each other. Tobacco firms are hopping mad

Big tobacco coughs up

A tobacco company will have to pay US $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer

‘Mass media campaigns can curb tobacco consumption significantly’

Tobacco is the leading cause of heart diseases among the young. Nandita Murukutla, country director (India) of non-profit World Lung Foundation, …

Gutkha ban has reduced consumption of tobacco in India: WHO

India is the world’s largest consumer of smokeless tobacco; nearly one million people die in the country every year due to tobacco use

India had the second highest number of cancer deaths in Asia in 2019: Lancet

Apart from tobacco smoking and ambient air pollution, high prevalence of smokeless tobacco public health concern in South Asian countries 

Take it not easy

Tobacco fights hepatitis B

Fair bid

In UK, images to accompany anti-smoking warnings

News Snippets

Akshay Kumar’s ‘Vimal’ apology: Health activists criticise action, say damage has been done

Activists urge amendment of Act that regulates tobacco products and surrogate advertising promulgated 20 years ago

Tobacco wars

A QUESTION OF INTENT·David Kessler·Public Affair/BBS Pulications, New York· US $27.50

WHO slams tobacco industry for interference in cessation efforts

The UN public health agency warned its member countries to not fall for such firms’ campaigns that are to manipulate the perception of …

Smokescreen

The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

Fireworks follow SMOKE

Tobacco companies will foot the medical bills of smokers who have cancer under an agreement with the US state of Florida. This spells bad times …

Addiction as muse

Book>> Coda by Simon Gray, Faber and Faber London 2008-11-24

After gutkha, Bihar government bans smokeless tobacco

Plans to raise tax on cigarettes and bidis by up to 60 per cent

Creating contradictions

Tobacco firms hit back