This is the first study to show increases in NNK as a result of a brief workplace exposure
'Thirty per cent of the world's deaths in young people, due to heart disease, are encountered by people in India.'
In a major public health measure, the ban on smoking in 'public places', direct and indirect advertising of all tobacco products and their sale to minors came into force on Saturday in the country under the Anti-Smoking Act.
According to a new study, China, India, Indonesia, USA, Russia have the largest number of smokers.
They might be role models for the larger population, but a new study shows that health professionals are one of the maximum users of tobacco in the country, with more than 50 per cent of them engaging in smoking or other activities. According to the Global Tobacco Surveillance System, lifetime prevalence of cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products among third-year medical students was reported to be 28.2 per cent and 22 per cent respectively.
Tobacco will be subjected to the highest tax slab of 28 per cent and an additional cess. The current rates of taxation on cigarettes and chewing tobacco are about 64 per cent and 81 per cent, respectively.
Though cured "95 per cent", United States President Barack Obama has admitted that he sometimes has "fallen off the wagon" in his bid to quit smoking.
The quitline number -- 1800-11-2356 -- is a dedicated toll-free number to help tobacco users receive free support and guidance to subdue their addiction.
'I do not drink nor smoke,' the superstar clarifies to an anti-tobacco group.
rediffGURU Dr Shyam Jamalabad offers advice on how to improve your dental health and hygiene.
Jatin Thakker, managing director of Gelnova Laboratories that manufactures and markets Nobacco in India, will take questions on how you can quit smoking.
Seventy years after Pather Panchali released on August 26, 1955, we finally get it. Shuttling between the village of Boral and a studio in Calcutta, caught between worrying about the next purse of funds and wondering which item to mortgage next, Satyajit Ray was explaining Indians to themselves, discovers Sreehari Nair.
The poor countries that smoke the most and pay the highest price.
The tobacco business was increasingly coming under prohibition by various regulations.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday said the government would continue to fight the tobacco companies tooth and nail.\n
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who gave up his smoking pipe years ago, feels that others too deserve encouragement to kick the habit and hence has subject tobacco products to higher taxation, while exempting toy balloons from central excise duty.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Saturday that the mandated pictorial warning on cigarette and beedi packets will come into effect from December 1.
On the occasion of 'World No Tobacco Day', we invite readers to share their experiences and knowledge about the lethal habit. Who knows your advice may help somebody, somewhere quit smoking.
'Have you seen foreign cigarette packets? They only have words warning us about the use of tobacco. While ours have pictures already covering 40 per cent area. I am just saying wait for our study before increasing it.' 'I repeat that I am aware that gutka and tobacco are harmful. Awareness is what we need. We are creating awareness. We are doing it on radio and television.' BJP MP Dilip Gandhi, who says there is no study in India that links tobacco use with cancer and has stayed the increase in size of pictorial warnings on cigarette packets, speaks to A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
Brushing aside opposition, the government on Tuesday moved to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including ban on sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age of a person buying tobacco products to 21 years from existing 18.
India could prevent over nine million deaths due to cardiovascular disease over the next decade if it implements smoking bans and levy higher tobacco taxes, a new study has found.
Find out just what effects smoking a cigarette has on your body.
Some questions cited concerns that larger warnings can hurt tobacco farmers and boost illicit trade.
The government announced recently that all places of work in the country will be declared smoke free and those found flouting the law will be strictly punished. Tell us what do you think about it.
The actor was issued a legal notice by an NGO for smoking in public during the two recent events -- the Twenty20 cricket match in Mumbai and Hindustan Times Summit in Delhi.
Life insurers need applicants to abstain from tobacco for up to five years.
In a new study, long time American anti-tobacco activist and physician Dr Michael Siegal has expressed grave concern over the 'obfuscation of facts' about second-hand smoke. Siegal contends that only repeated exposure to second hand smoke is likely to increase the risk of a heart attack for a non-smoker. "Even chronic exposure to second-hand smoke cannot cause a heart attack in a healthy non-smoker," he said. Siegal says all cardiac risks are reversible.
The smoking ban, a pet project of the health minister, was put into effect from October 2 and covered almost all public places, including hotels, restaurants, pubs, offices and international airports. While a majority of states were enthusiastic about implementing the ban, few like Maharashtra and Bihar showed reluctance in doing so.
Even after the removal of breast tissue, it is possible that the cancer may recur in the chest wall or the area where the surgery was performed, warns Dr Meghal Sanghavi, oncosurgeon, at Wockhardt Hospitals.
More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by anything else. Here's how you can get rid of your addiction.
Puffing away on a cigarette to absorb the tension of the Indian Premier League has put Bollywood super star and owner of Kolkata Knight Riders team Shah Rukh Khan in a spot with the anti-smoking lobby. The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE), on Saturday protested against the filmstar who was shown on television smoking during an IPL match against Kings XI Punjab in Durban, on April 21.
Here's why you should kick the butt right now before one of these smoking-related ailments make you it's next victim
The government on Friday announced that all places of work in the country will be declared smoke free and those found flouting the law will be strictly punished.
Up to 900,000 Indians die every year of tobacco-related diseases
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday dismissed Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Dilip Gandhi's remarks that all studies linking cancer to tobacco have come from abroad and that there is no Indian survey report to confirm it.
On the occasion of world no tobacco day, we bring you a list of foods that will help you kick the butt.
The rules make India's health warnings on tobacco products the world's most stringent, along with Thailand
The goovernment told the Delhi High Court it was willing to provide certain exemptions.
A survey conducted among 2,599 college students in Delhi, shows two per cent of them smoked their first cigarette before attaining even 10 years of age.
