Big Tech turns to Sesame Street, Girl Scouts to deflect scrutiny over kids' screen timeTech giants Meta and Google funded trusted children's brands to teach responsible tech use. This occurred even as their apps were designed ...
14 May, 2026, 08.40 PM IST
Is smoking a cigarette rarely really harmful?Cigarette smoking: Even the occasional smoke raises blood pressure, constricts blood vessels and stresses the heart
06 Jan, 2026, 07.59 PM IST
Deadly trio behind today's infertility, cancer surge: Doctors warn of harm to reproductive organs, hormones, and future generationsDoctors in India warn that smoking, alcohol, and vaping harm reproductive health. These habits increase the risk of miscarriage and birth d...
08 Jun, 2025, 12.31 PM IST
Protecting yourself from wildfire smoke: Tips for health and safetyThe smoke from wildfires consists of hazardous pollutants that include toxic gases and particulate matter which can deeply impact health. H...
08 Jun, 2023, 05.50 PM IST
Why passive vaping can be a health scare for the smoker and those around himThe lung defenses of smokers, vapers, and bystanders are overwhelmed by repeated exposure.
27 Feb, 2023, 08.36 AM IST
World No-Tobacco Day: Risk for oral cancer in smokers 10 times higher than that of non-smokersIn 2020, oral and lip cancer was the most common form of cancer in men in India.
31 May, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
Adopt a healthy diet on World No Tobacco Day 2022Quitting smoking is not easy but extremely necessary. Smoking causes several life-threatening diseases, including cancer and heart failure....
30 May, 2022, 08.03 PM IST
E-cigarettes: misconceptions about their dangers may be preventing people from quitting smokingIn recent surveys, nearly half of US and a third of British respondents considered nicotine e-cigarettes to be as harmful as cigarettes, if...
03 Sep, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
Smokers are more vulnerable to Covid-19Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy can double your chances of quitting smoking (9)
30 Sep, 2020, 02.26 PM IST
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.
31 May, 2020, 10.00 AM IST
View: Concerns over teen vaping have overshadowed the question of its relative safetyWorries about teen vaping in the US have overshadowed the central question about e-cigarettes — are they safer than smoking?
21 Sep, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
40% Indians exposed to second hand smoke at home: World Health OrganizationDespite India's regulation on public smoking, 30 per cent adults are found exposed to second hand tobacco smoke at work, the study said.
21 Sep, 2015, 12.04 PM IST
Anti-smoking drug doesn't trigger heart disease, depressionA drug that helps smokers kick the butt does not increase their risk of heart attack and depression as was previously thought, a new study ...
07 Sep, 2015, 05.55 PM IST
College students believe hookah safer than cigaretteMany college students in the US consider hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes, despite emerging evidence otherwise, a new study has...
12 Dec, 2014, 04.38 PM IST
Major Kerala hotels to be completely smoke-free :ReportMandated signages would be put up in hotels and restaurants while customers and employees will be prevented from smoking on premises.
29 Nov, 2013, 03.23 PM IST
E-cigarettes cut out the tar and smoke, but are they injurious no more?A vice, as a sedentary trawl through proscribed lists will reveal, is classified thus because of certain deleterious personal, social or mo...
25 Mar, 2013, 04.21 AM IST
- More than 50 per cent of BPO workers smoke: Study
Cigarette is the most common form of smoking but the staff also go to the Hookah bars to ventilate their stress.Trends of new software orde...
04 Feb, 2008, 09.40 PM IST