Most people claim they smoke to relieve stress. This might be one of the biggest misconceptions around as a new study suggests that it’s quitting smoking, which provides more stress-relief than smoking! British researchers …
Odisha will impose a ban on the manufacture, sale and use of gutka (tobacco-laced areca nut pieces) products in the state, a minister said on Tuesday. State Health Minister Damodar Rout said the government is likely to issue a …
A recent study by a reputed research organisation Euromonitor claims that India is sixth largest illicit cigarettes market in the world and about 16% of products of tobacco industry is illegitimate. These cigarettes evade the …
New Year’s Eve is around the corner which means that resolutions are going to be made and broken. The decision to quit smoking is by far the most popular New Year’s Resolution, but one out of every five smoker who tries to …
The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notice to the government on a plea for ban on manufacture, distribution, sale, export, import and consumption of chewing tobacco, gutka and pan masala in all their forms. The apex court bench …
Pregnant women who puff can treble their baby's chance of developing meningitis, and children exposed to parental smoking are twice as vulnerable to the deadly illness, according to a British research. Every year around 2,500 …
A new study from Germany suggest that eCigarettes often thought to be a healthier alternative to tobacco ones may not be safe after all. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research WKI, in Braunschweig, conducted …
Hookah bars being illegally run from city restaurants would soon face action, the civic agencies told the Delhi High Court Monday. ‘A restaurant licence does not allow hookah bars and is valid for serving food only... if they …
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 …
Experts estimate that almost 100 million deaths over the last century have been caused due to smoking bidis and tobacco in India. ‘Our calculations are derived from using the most conservative estimates and yet present …
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 …
A Biju Janata Dal MP plans to introduce a private members' bill in parliament seeking Australia-like strict tobacco control measures in India. Baijayant 'Jay' Panda's bill seeks plain packaging of tobacco products in India and …
A new report says, pictorial warnings on packaging for tobacco products in India do not meet the internationally stipulated size parameters. The report, Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report, points out …
Slipping 23 places behind its 100th rank in 2010, India has been ranked 123 among 193 countries in an international biennial report on pictorial health warning campaign against use of tobacco products. The 'Cigarette Package …
