World no tobacco day: Tobacco impacts environment, not just health
About 3.5 million hectares of land cleared for growing tobacco each year
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
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
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
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 …
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
India had the second highest number of cancer deaths in Asia in 2019: Lancet
Apart from tobacco smoking and ambient air pollution, high prevalence of smokeless tobacco public health concern in South Asian countries
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 …
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
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
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
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
Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks
Tobacco, as with much agricultural production, promotes unsustainable modes of commodification and consumption of nature
Anti-smoking ads motivate brain to quit tobacco: Study
NIMHANS study supports the need for continuing mass media campaigns to tackle growing tobacco consumption
Health in news on June 8
Here's a round-up of today's news reports and debates in health
Vaping ban in India: Health experts support; tobacco farmers and merchants oppose
Tobacco merchants appeal to the Cabinet to reconsider the draft ordinance intended to ban e-cigarettes
World No-Tobacco Day: ICMR calls for ban on e-cigarettes
In a white paper released on May 31, the council noted that e-cigarettes and other such devices contained not only nicotine solution, which was …
India, 163 nations off track to meet tobacco reduction targets
Smokeless tobacco affecting adolescents more in the South-East Asia region
Area under tobacco cultivation in Africa rose over 3% in 6 yrs: WHO report
The number of tobacco users in the WHO African Region increased to 73 million in 2018 from 64 million adult users in 2000
'Tobacco not only injurious to health but also a major source of radiation exposure'
Alok Srivastava, physical and nuclear chemist who is the co-author of a study on radioactive Polonium in tobacco, talks about how the …
Air pollution linked with cardiovascular diseases: Study
Tobacco had the strongest association with heart disease, followed by physical inactivity and low-quality diet
