Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting for a country-wide ban on gutka. Chandy has requested the prime minister to ‘ban gutkha products containing tobacco and nicotine in all …
Till date, 16 states and three Union Territories (UTs) have implemented the ban on gutka and pan masala with tobacco/nicotine under the Food Safety and Standards Act. Now the directors of 12 regional cancer centres in India …
About 20 million school students in Bihar Wednesday took a pledge that they would never consume tobacco or related products, and would encourage their family and friends to do the same, an official said. "Over 20 million …
A survey by the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) revealed on Wednesday that smokers in Kerala spend nearly nine per cent of their income on smoking.Chief Minister Oommen Chandy released the report to Paul Sebastian, director, …
According to the Lancet medical Journal, forty percent of men in developing countries either smoke or use smokeless tobacco. Tobacco is likely to kill half of its users. There are huge disparities in the rates of smoking …
28.2% people in Karnataka are tobacco users with 39.8% males and 16.3% females consuming tobacco in one form or another according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) for Karnataka (2009-10).
The report estimates that …
The Union Health Ministry's latest move to cut down on tobacco use is plain packaging! After putting pictorial health warnings on tobacco products, the union health ministry plans to push for plain packaging. Plain packaging …
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) devised by the WHO and the Centre for Disease Control Atlanta (US), implemented with the help of the state government revealed that 31.4% of the adult population in Maharashtra use tobacco …
