At least 85% space on cigarette packets will now carry pictorial warnings
Anyone not following the new norms issued by the Centre can be imprisoned for a term which may extend to two years
Time to pay up
It is high time cigarette companies, rather than taxpayers, paid for cancer treatment the world over
World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco farming adding to global food crisis, says WHO
Growing sustainable crops can help address acute global food insecurity, governments urged to stop tobacco farming subsidies
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
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
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 …
Tobacco wars
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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
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
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