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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 ...- Why Smoker's Disease is rising among the millennials and Gen ZsA recent study reveals that COPD, or Smokers' Disease, is impacting younger individuals. Doctors in Delhi are observing a rise in cases amo...
- 80 per cent people believe use of cigarettes, bidis is a very serious problem, says surveyAround eighty per cent or more support banning smoking in all public places.
- World No Tobacco Day: How cigarettes, bidis & hookahs affect the bodyTobacco contains many chemical substances such as nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar and potential carcinogen.
- View: Why ban vaping but not the more dangerous bidis?Vaping has certainly caused some deaths and diseases but these pale into insignificance when compared to more than a million deaths a year ...
- Bidi smoking cost India Rs 80,550 crore last year: StudyBidi -- a cheap cigarette made of unprocessed tobacco wrapped in leaves -- is very popular in India, accounting for 81 per cent of the toba...
- Experts urge GoM, GST council, to increase cess on tobacco productsThe overall tax rate on all tobacco products in India is still very low compared to other middle-income countries, including those in South...
- Non-smokers can get lung cancer and the reasons are around usLung cancer in non-smokers not only has a different set of possible causative agents, but also a different behaviour and treatment outcome.
- Include 'bidi' in demerit category under GST: ExpertsThe Indian market of smoked tobacco is dominated by bidis, which outsell cigarettes by 8:1 ratio.
- Include bidi in GST's demerit category: ExpertsOncologists at Tata Memorial Hospital said bidis, which cause 5.8 lakh deaths annually in India, are as dangerous as cigarettes and should ...
- Include bidi in demerit goods under GST regime, oncologists urge PM Narendra ModiThe demand from leading oncologists and 108 cancer hospitals under the aegis of the state-funded National Cancer Grid (NCG), comes ahead of...
- Higher tobacco taxes can save 35-45 billion lives in South Asia: StudyIt stated that annual increase in tobacco tax has mostly been below the rate of inflation and income growth, thus cigarettes remain afforda...
- Tobacco indeed causes cancer: Kerala medical communityEconomic burden for four specific diseases including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, tuberculosis, and respiratory disease in Kerala for t...
- Budget 2012: Government should tax all forms of tobaccoGovernment’s current administration of tobacco taxes neither serves the purpose of revenue generation, nor serves the public good and deter...
- Big tobacco wins: Pictorial warnings go up in smokeThe new warnings were meant to be much more powerful than cautionary notices on the ill-effects of tobacco.
- Pictorial warnings in packs of tobacco products from SundayAll tobacco products will have to carry compulsory pictorial warnings on their packs highlighting health hazards of its consumption, a long...
- 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...
- Smoke Jumper: Tobacco products to carry scary pictorial warningsAll tobacco products including cigarettes, gutka and bidis will now carry pictorial warnings depicting ill-effects of their consumption lik...
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