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CHINA

WHO agrees to global tobacco tax hike

Tobacco industry representatives kept out of talks

Tobacco use by adults below 25 may soon become illegal

Government mulls changes in law to prevent surrogate ads by tobacco companies

STATUTORY WARNING ISSUE

UNITED NATIONS

No lesser evil

Health in news on June 8

Here's a round-up of today's news reports and debates in health

United Nations

Of mild cigarettes and stiff penalties

Philip Morris told to pay damages for misleading smokers

Your toothpaste may cause cancer

A study finds nicotine dental products contain nicotine

Cigarettes with additives pollute air more: study

Fifteen chemicals increased by 20 per cent or more in air with the cigarettes

India, 163 nations off track to meet tobacco reduction targets

Smokeless tobacco affecting adolescents more in the South-East Asia region

Injurious to wealth!

TOBACCO MENACE

Tobacco turns a new leaf

Can yield drugs

Australia pulls out Indian gutka ad

Kamla Pasand had boundary line advertisements in India-Australia matches

Curfew in Kashmir, poor infrastructure put cancer patients at greater risk

When scheduled therapies are skipped, the treatment cycle of cancer patients gets upset

Odisha follows in the footsteps of states that have banned gutkha

More than 43 per cent people in the state consume tobacco in one form or other

Under fire

Kerala becomes second state to ban chewing tobacco

Those who violate ban may be fined up to Rs 5 lakh or imprisoned up to six years

Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir hike VAT on tobacco products

Increase in tax in previous years decreased tobacco consumption in Rajasthan

All for a smoke

Cultivation and production of tobacco is consuming forests in southern Brazil

Brush up law

As many tooth-care products contain harmful tobacco

India fails to curb tobacco use, report

Poor enforcement of laws and affordability of tobacco products are blamed