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2,400,000,000,000: Chinese are smoking nearly half of world's totalChina's cigarette consumption has surged by 39% between 2003 and 2023, contrasting with a global decline. Despite fewer young smokers, low ...- Southeast Asia’s tobacco toll meets India’s tough tax moveTobacco causes more deaths in Southeast Asia than any other preventable factor, claiming 3.2 million lives annually. India is using fiscal ...
- India, Bangladesh, Nepal on track to achieve 30 pc tobacco use reduction by year-end: WHOBangladesh, India, and Nepal are set to significantly cut tobacco use. The WHO highlights these nations are on track for a 30 percent reduc...
- Education, health ministries issue advisory on implementing anti-tobacco manualThe Union education and health ministries have issued a joint advisory to states and Union territories, urging the strict implementation of...
- BCCI faces directive to stop showing tobacco ads during cricket matchesThe Union Health Ministry is set to direct the BCCI to halt hoardings advertising smokeless tobacco at cricket venues, aiming to reduce you...
- Hookah bars and their sale banned in Karnataka. Here's whyThe state government of Karnataka has imposed a ban on hookah bars, including the sale and promotion of hookah and its related ingredients....
- Addicted to vaping? Experts warn that long-term use of e-cigars may lead to drug abuseIt is imperative to take urgent comprehensive action to prevent the emergence of a new generation of e-cigarette smokers.
- Youth associations urge PM, finance minister to increase taxes on tobacco productsAccording to the associations, the Parliament Standing Committee on Health submitted a pertinent and comprehensive report on cancer care pl...
- Rs 19,293 crore tax collected on tobacco in 2016-17: J P NaddaHe said there was no earmarking of funds to the health care sector out of the funds collected from taxes on tobacco.
- Tobacco sends $1 trillion up in smoke every yearIn 2013-2014, global tobacco excise taxes generated nearly $269 billion in government revenues. Of this, less than $1 billion was invested ...
- 'Sin Tax' on tobacco below 40% to have negative impact: Voluntary Health Association of AssamVHAA demanded at least 40 per cent sin tax with a provision for states' right to impose top-up taxes on all types of tobacco, like cigarett...
- Ways to curb non-users from taking to tobaccoWhile the number of tobacco users is reducing across developed nations, countries like India still have a long way to go.
- India needs comprehensive tax policy for curbing tobacco use: WHOThe Centre, this January, has moved to amend the anti- smoking law and proposed radical changes, including a ban on sale of loose cigarette...
- India, Bangladesh have 80 per cent smokeless tobacco usersThe report says that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that smokeless tobacco causes oral cancer, esophageal cancer and pancreatic c...
- American Heart Association classifies e-cigarettes same as regular cigarettesA recent study cited youth exposure to e-cigarettes advertising skyrocketed over 250% from 2011 to 2013, reaching 24 million young people.
- Surrogate ads luring kids into smokingA recent Indo-US study, conducted in India found that nearly half the children had seen and remembered a tobacco advertisement. Sneak peek ...
- Substance abuse is filtering down to developing countriesEven as there is growing concern about the use of tobacco, recent surveys show smoking is on the rise.
- Substance abuse filtering from developed to developing countriesEven as there is a growing concern about the use of tobacco, recent surveys show smoking is still on the rise. Worse, alcohol and drug cons...
- Ramadoss plans tobacco monitors for classroomsThe Global Youth Tobacco Survey found one in 10 school children consuming tobacco products. Health Ministry now plans to introduce tobacco ...
- Ban tobacco ads worldwide: WHOCross-border advertising, among the few remaining means available to cigarette companies to advertise their wares without violating laws, i...
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