World Lung Cancer Day 2025: Debunking myths, spreading awareness, and highlighting hopeWorld Lung Cancer Day highlights the urgent need to dispel myths surrounding this deadly disease. Lung cancer affects smokers and non-smoke...
31 Jul, 2025, 08.45 PM IST
LIC Tech Term, New Jeevan Amar: LIC relaunches two term assurance plansHere is a look at the features of the relaunched plans, as per the product brochures on the LIC website.
23 Nov, 2022, 01.49 PM IST
Your smoking addiction might be a dating deal-breakerDating app, QuackQuack polled its users to learn about the effects of smoking on dating life. According to the survey results, 69 per cent ...
13 Jun, 2022, 09.48 AM IST
World No-Tobacco Day: Childhood cancer, cleft lips and other risks that male and female smoking can cause to babiesSmoking can cause birth defects in babies.
30 May, 2022, 06.32 PM IST
Ladies, stub that cigarette: Smoking may up heart attack riskHeart disease is the number one cause of death for women and men worldwide.
28 Jun, 2019, 06.26 PM IST
Health ministry calls for halting sales of e-cigarettes, smoking devicesThe health ministry said it was possible that children and non-smokers using such products could switch to cigarettes once they get addicte...
29 Aug, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
Unhealthy lifestyle of mothers can make their children obeseChildren of mothers who follow a healthy lifestyle have a lower risk of developing obesity and other disorders.
06 Jul, 2018, 05.29 PM IST
- Social smoking carries same heart-disease risks: Study
San Francisco, May 8 (IANS) A US study indicates that social smokers' carries the same high blood pressure and high cholesterol risk, ident...
08 May, 2017, 03.20 PM IST
India among top 4 countries for highest number of deaths by smokingMore than one in 10 deaths globally was caused due to smoking. India has 11·2 per cent of the world's total smokers.
06 Apr, 2017, 08.29 AM IST
It's not too late, yet: Quitting smoking even in your 60s helpsThe study also suggested that people aged 70 or older currently smoking were more than three times likely to die than never-smokers.
06 Dec, 2016, 09.58 AM IST
Smoking is associated with an increased risk of heart failure, says new studySmoking is associated with thicker heart walls and reduction in the organ's pumping ability.
14 Sep, 2016, 06.47 PM IST
Hate passive smoking? Tips to avoid itThough smoking in public places was banned in India in 2008, the implementation of this rule is being smoked away into thin air.
27 May, 2016, 11.55 AM IST
Smoking dips 10% in 2 years in India but women smokers up sharplySmoking in India is falling steadily even as the number of women smokers is rising, making it home to the second largest number of female s...
28 Dec, 2015, 12.27 PM IST
Fashionable puffs: Smoking rising among women because cigarettes are being marketed as signs of successExperience and the latest figures tell us that despite horrific images a great deal of tobacco still goes up in smoke.
02 Apr, 2015, 11.02 AM IST
More women in India smoke now than 30 years ago: StudyFemale smokers in India has gone up in the last 30 years but the number of men who puff daily dipped in the country where more people are s...
12 Jan, 2014, 03.32 PM IST
- Cut the cost, not the cover
A clever approach to buying and a healthy lifestyle can bring down cost of life insurance by 60%. Health insurance cover | Read fine print ...
25 Mar, 2009, 01.40 PM IST
- Employer to pay if you smoke at work
Your employer may no longer take kindly to your smoking in office, and may even go to the length of forcing you to quit smoking altogether!
01 Jun, 2008, 02.32 AM IST