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Israel to add graphic health warnings on tobacco products
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The warnings illustrate the harms of smoking itself as well as the harms resulting from exposure to smoke. The regulations will apply to a variety of smoking products, including cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, hookahs, and tobacco intended for chewing and sucking.
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In MP, girls take up smoking cigarettes aged 7, says survey report
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Mission Director (MD) National Health Mission, Priyanka Das gave the above information during 'Umang School Health and Wellness' program organized at Hotel Taj, Bhopal on Saturday. State Health Minister Dr Prabhuram Chowdhary released the survey report of Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) i
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Smoking is a major risk factor for COPD
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra)/New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI/Business Wire India): Tobacco use is one of the major risk factors for multiple chronic diseases, including lung disease. In India, use of tobacco accounts for approx. 1.35 million deaths every year and is one of the major causes of death a
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Legal age for smoking tobacco would be 21 years soon, COTPA amendment comi
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 23 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has planned to increase the legal age for smoking tobacco from the present 18 year to 21 years. The Ministry has proposed that only those who have attained the legal age of 21 years be allowed to smoke. Presently, people over 18 year
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E-cigarettes are popular among comparatively recent quitters, study sugges
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 4 (ANI): Vaping is common for those who left smoking tobacco within the past 5 years rather than for those who left a decade or more ago.
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Study reveals ill effects of marijuana for heart patients
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Physicians are worried after they found traces of Marijuana in a number of heart patients. While smoking tobacco leads to one in every four cardiovascular disease-related deaths, the cause of similar effects from using marijuana is still not entirely kno
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Marijuana affects heart more than one can think of, reveals study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): With traces of marijuana being found in a number of heart patients, physicians worry about the safe usage of the substance considering more States have legalised it for recreational and medicinal use raising its usage level in the past few years.
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Heavy smoking makes smoker look older: Study
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 1 (ANI): A new study has revealed another negative effect of smoking tobacco, where a person looks older than he is.
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This World No Tobacco Day, make a START to quit
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 31 (ANI): Today, people spend huge sums of money to be in good health, but all their efforts go in vain with a single cigarette they light to blow away the stress or just to be in company.
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Smoking reduces due to tobacco control policies
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Mar 20 (ANI): Increasing taxes on tobacco and smoke-free policies have resulted in the reduction of smoking among older adults, according to a recent study.
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Hookah is harmful for heart, reveals study
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. (USA) , Mar 9 (ANI): Smoking tobacco through Hookah results in inhaling more toxic chemicals than a cigarette.
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Govt. launches smoking cessation campaign
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 9 (ANI): At a World Health Organisation event held recently, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India launched a national media campaign to encourage smoking cessation.
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