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Experts back OTC access to NRT across all formats and dosages, including 2 mg and 4 mg, as India struggles with a Tobacco quit success rate under 5%The report highlights the significant economic burden of tobacco use, particularly among low-income households, and underscores how reducin...
A decades-old tobacco settlement is drying up, and Americans may feel the financial hitTobacco settlement funds in the U.S. are under pressure as payments linked to the 1998 tobacco settlement may decline. About $206 billion w...
Technovation 2024: Jacek Olczak on Smart Decisions and PMI’s Smoke-Free Future
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...
A business strategy called addictionRight now, the smartest brains in the world are working on technology to ensure you are addicted to your app, your screen, your technology,...
India Needs To Review E-Cigarette Ban Via Multi-Stakeholder Consult
Philip Morris aims to phase out cigarettes in Japan within decadeThe Marlboro maker announced in 2016 a long-term goal to stop selling cigarettes and replace them with alternatives that it says are less h...
Key Assam parties hailed for making tobacco control an issueVHAA has welcomed the initiative of the major political parties in the state to include issues pertaining to tobacco control in their respe...
Delhi government requests Bollywood actors like Shah Rukh Khan, others not to endorse pan masalaThe Delhi government has also asked the actors to join its anti-tobacco campaign to save the lives of lakhs of people who die due to oral c...
Restrict tobacco advertisements at point of sales in Jammu and Kashmir: DGPIn an order, the DGP directed all district police chiefs to implement the rules related to section 5 of COTPA (restriction of tobacco adver...
Madhya Pradesh CM Chouhan asks people to shun social malpractices.Chouhan has urged the people to launch a drive against social malpractices and to take a pledge to develop an addiction-free society.
Jammu and Kashmir emerging as smoking capital of Northern India: VHAIJammu and Kashmir is fast emerging as the "smoking capital" of north India as Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) today said.
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.
Social worker urges people to observe Independence Day as 'freedom from tobacco' dayA city-based social worker has called upon people to observe 'freedom from tobacco' on this year's Independence Day.
Multi-sectoral policies needed for tobacco-free society: PM Manmohan SinghNoting that use of tobacco imposes serious consequences on economy and society, PM Manmohan Singh said.
Zeltner Committee report in 2000: A bombshell on tobacco industryChitra Subramaniam Duella offers an insider's view of how a few committed men and women at the WHO battled Big Tobacco. Excerpts from an up...
- Gutkha ban: Health Ministry mulls penalising companies for ad blitz
Health Ministry is mulling to penalise firms manufacturing smokeless tobacco products for violating key provisions of food safety law.
Gutka ban may spur demand for cigarettes, say doctorsPsychiatrists say intensive awareness campaigns, free counselling and medication must be provided to help addicts deal with withdrawal symp...
- Ramadoss wants ban on tobacco products
Buoyed by the ban on smoking in public places that went into force across the country on Thursday, a jubilant Union Health Minister Anbuman...
- Maid will decide if you can smoke at home!
If you want to smoke at home, you will have to seek the permission of your maid.