PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enact legislation prohibiting cigarette sales to individuals born af...

In 1987, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for 7 April 1988 to be a "a world no-smoking day." Later in 1988, another re...

The lung defenses of smokers, vapers, and bystanders are overwhelmed by repeated exposure.

The research claim cannabis smokers suffer from higher rates of inflammation as well.

At a webinar held by Tobacco-Free India, a citizens group, they said gaps in the COTPA Act serve as a tacit approval from the authorities t...

In 2020, oral and lip cancer was the most common form of cancer in men in India.

Tobacco contains many chemical substances such as nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar and potential carcinogen.

Moreover, hotels, restaurants and airports will now have to prominently display a board at the entrance of designated smoking areas with th...

Despite India's regulation on public smoking, 30 per cent adults are found exposed to second hand tobacco smoke at work, the study said.

The Commissionerate of Transport in Assam has issued instructions to all District Transport Officers (DTOs) to strictly enforce anti-tobacc...

Nearly 46 per cent of the men in bottom fifth smoke compared to only 20 per cent in the upper fifth.

This number is projected to rise to 5 billion, or 81 per cent of the projected 6.1 billion by 2025 if the current pace of tobacco cessation...

FCV tobacco is grown in AP & Karnataka. According to the association, farmers of FCV tobacco in these states don’t have any viable alternat...

Manufacturing and use of non- smoking tobacco products in Assam will be banned from tomorrow with the government to notify the relevant Act.

Government will launch a fresh campaign against tobacco smoking to warn people about the health hazards and the penalties to be faced by vi...

"I do not know when it will happen, but I want to begin the banning of smoking tobacco in the country from Assam," Sarma said.

Budget 2010-11 has elicited frowns from the makers of non-smoking tobacco, popularly known as chewing tobacco.