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Tobacco eradication organisation urges regulation of tobacco sales to prev
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], September 5 (ANI): National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) urged for regulation of tobacco sales to prevent tobacco usage among children during an orientation programme and a stakeholders workshop organized with the Delhi-based organization Voluntary Organi
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Vital Strategies launches digital crowdsourcing tool to monitor tobacco ma
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 22 (ANI): With more than 267 million tobacco users in India, a new digital platform the Tobacco Enforcement and Reporting Movement (TERM) from global health organization Vital Strategies has been launched to provides a digital tool to regularly monitor and track tobac
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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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Ban on flavored vaping might lead teens to cigarettes
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Connecticut [US], May 29 (ANI): When San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure banning the sale of flavoured tobacco products in 2018, public health advocates celebrated. After all, tobacco use poses a significant threat to public health and health equity and flavours are
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New campaign in Karnataka warns tobacco users of the dangers of tobacco us
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 19 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Tobacco use is the leading preventable killer in the world, and in India, it is responsible for around 1 million deaths annually. To reduce the burden of tobacco use, today the state health department of Karnataka launched a s
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COVID-19 lockdown linked to uptick in tobacco use: Study
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 6 (ANI): A new study has found that pandemic-related anxiety, boredom, and irregular routines were cited as major drivers of increased nicotine and tobacco use during the initial COVID-19 lockdown.
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Light smokers may not escape nicotine addiction, study reveals
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 24 (ANI): Even people who consider themselves to be casual cigarette smokers may be addicted, according to current diagnostic criteria.
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Do you know - Excess weight can increase the risk of Cancer?
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI/Mediawire): The death trap Obesity is responsible for 20 per cent of cancer deaths in women and 14 per cent in men. The death rate increases 10 per cent for every 5 unit increase in BMI (Body Mass Index). 40 per cent of the cancers diagnosed since 2014 ar
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Evolution may be to blame for high risk of advanced cancers in humans
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Compared to chimpanzees, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas -- the type of tumors that include prostate, breast, lung and colorectal cancers -- even in the absence of known risk factors, such as genetic predisposition or tobacco
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Parents less aware when their kids vape than when they smoke, finds study
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
California [US], October 10 (ANI): The findings of a new study has shown that most of the parents know or suspect when their child smokes, however, there are chances that they are in the dark if the child vapes or uses other tobacco products.
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27% of estimated 13.9 lakh cancer cases in 2020 due to tobacco use
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 18 (ANI): The number of cancer cases in the country in 2020 was estimated at 13.9 lakh of which about 27% was due to tobacco use, according to the National Cancer Registry Programme Report 2020, released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Cen
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Though concerned about COVID-19, cigar smokers are smoking more, survey fi
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
North Carolina [USA], Aug 5 (ANI): An online survey involving nearly 800 cigar smokers found that majority of the people surveyed intended to quit smoking due to concerns about elevated health risks if they contracted COVID-19, more than twice as many reported they increased rather than decr
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