World no tobacco day: Tobacco impacts environment, not just health

About 3.5 million hectares of land cleared for growing tobacco each year

Towards global tobacco control

India to be the only south-east Asian country to achieve smoking reduction target by 2025

Globally, only 24 countries seem to be achieving WHO's 2025 target of reducing global prevalence of tobacco use by 30 per cent

Tobacco hurts more than just your lungs – it damages the communities that grow it

Despite the 2005 WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and falling smoking rates, global population growth means total tobacco use …

Tobacco products will continue to have 85% pictorial warning as SC stays Karnataka court order

The Supreme Court also dismissed the industry’s plea that the package warning be increased from 40 per cent to 50 per cent and not 85 per cent

Only four countries making full efforts to end smoking: WHO

Netherlands, Mauritius join Brazil and Turkey in implementing all recommended measures to reduce tobacco smoking globally

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The last gasp

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Trap the young

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Catching 'em young: Big Tobacco's mantra for Indian kids

The industry is openly violating the anti-tobacco law to lure children to its products, finds a new survey

For those dead...and alive

Courting lung cancer

Litigation as a weapon for tobacco control

Supreme Court orders tobacco industry to comply with bigger health warning rules

The new rules make it mandatory for tobacco companies to cover 85 per cent of the packet surface with health warnings

Your cigarette continues to harm environment long after it is extinguished

Tobacco kills more than seven million people a year and is currently the world’s single biggest cause of preventable death

Tobacco control

Chuck the fag

Coughing up

Tobacco giant Philip Morris pays a record compensation to a smoker suffering from lung cancer

Chewing tobacco products: Storehouse of toxic chemicals

Indian scientists have prepared a database of toxic substances found in different chewing tobacco products sold not only in India and South Asia …

US in the dock

Smugglers prevail

Tobacco tiff

Fatal statistics

Smoke signals