Labour's love lost

UNITED NATION

Creating contradictions

South Asia

How a smoking cessation aid circumvents challenges of tobacco harm reduction

Governments should regulate ENDS either as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) or under a special act, instead of banning them altogether

Cancer not a single disease: it has multiple causes and as many treatments

With time, cancer has increasingly come to be understood as a lifestyle and an environmental disease with several causal pathways

Why do you like paan?

Passersby at the PVR Saket market in New Delhi, India explain why they do or do not like paan.

Non-smoking beedi-rollers face cancer risk

About six million people employed in India's beedi industry risk developing cancer from handling tobacco leaves

Asia countries say no to US cancer sticks

The US is pushing its tobacco industry in Asian countries, despite stringent laws against smoking in several of these countries

Battling against tobacco

Guatemala is exploring the possibility of legal action against multinational cigarette firms, the first such move by a country

Tobacco consumption declines across states, dry Bihar consumes more alcohol than Maharashtra: NFHS-5

Alcohol consumption among women aged 15 years and above highest in north-eastern states

Tobacco case

Smoking unabated

Women in the US continue to puff one too many

Self defence

Snippets

Objection overruled

FDA approves marketing of 8 smokeless tobacco products in US

Using General Snus instead of tobacco cigarettes can cut risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic …

As gutkha stands banned, dohra consumption rising in Uttar Pradesh

Dohra does not contain any statutory warning label and hence, consumers are unaware of its health hazards

Tobacco control policies are effective, says WHO report

The report further finds that tobacco control does not harm economies and has a modest impact on employment

Spanish folly

When the Spanish found tobacco in America did they bite off more than they could chew? The debate still continues in the form of gutka in India

Cigarettes, cars, and public health

Why should only cars be blamed for causing cancer? There should be health norms for cigarettes, too

Fighting Tobacco

British American Tobacco's documents smoked out

A luxury no more

Let-off

Tobacco companies get a reprieve in the UK. How will Asia fare?