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 …
Tobacco wars
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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
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
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
Will this one work?
If the first class action suit against tobacco companies in Florida is successful, the US tobacco industry is in trouble
Feeling the heat
The Justice department files a mammoth civil lawsuit against cigarette manufacturers in the US
Customer be damned
A new report claims that cigarette manufacturers had the know-how to make cigarette smoking safer, but did not introduce them
The Insider
direction: michael mann Screenplay: Eric Roth, Michael Mann
Big tobacco replies
UK tobacco companies will challenge a government report suggesting a ban on tobacco advertising
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
Ban sale of e-cigarettes: Centre to states
The advisory comes on the heels of a Delhi High Court order on regulating sale of e-cigarettes
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