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Punjab Police to enforce ban on e-cigarettes, hookah bars
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Acting on the directions of Health and Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu, 'State Tobacco Control Cell' in collaboration with the Punjab Police has initiated a state-level drive to curb tobacco use to save children and youth across the State.
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Lok Sabha members support bill on e-cigarettes but question wide use of to
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 26 (ANI): Members in Lok Sabha on Tuesday supported a bill that seeks to prohibit production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or distribution of electronic cigarettes but said the Centre should also take steps to curb use of cigarettes and other forms of t
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Various groups appeal to PM Modi to ban Electronic Nicotine Delivery Syste
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 19 (ANI): Over 1000 doctors, 90 Public Health Organisations, 1000 school students and teachers from across India, have appealed to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for effective enforcement of the ban on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), National Organisat
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More policy work needed to decrease the use of smokeless tobacco: Research
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 4 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have shown that regulations on smokeless tobacco are still lacking, despite 181 countries agreeing to a common approach to controlling the demand and supply.
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Tobacco use makes precancerous cells that fertilize cancer growth, study s
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 2 (ANI): A recent study has found that tobacco consumption leads to the formation of precancerous cells that fertilize cancer growth.
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E-cigarettes, tobacco linked to higher risk of oral cancer
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] July 29(ANI): Turns out, Tobacco use remains a leading cause of oral cancer but the tobacco landscape is evolving with increasing use of non-cigarette tobacco products and dual-use of multiple product types.
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Indian men at risk of cardiovascular disease due to tobacco
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Globally, tobacco use results in death for 50 percent of its users, who account for over nine percent of the world's population today.
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Alcohol, tobacco are biggest threat to human welfare
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 10 (ANI): Alcohol and tobacco use has cost humans more than a quarter of a billion disability-adjusted life years, suggests a recent study.
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Govt. mass media campaign highlights link between tobacco and TB
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), during the End-TB Summit here, has re-launched 'Cough,' a national mass media campaign to warn citizens about the links between TB and tobacco use.
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Passive smoking hidden risk factor of heart disease
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 10 (ANI): According to statistics, about six million people die of tobacco use or exposure to secondhand smoke. This accounts for six percent of female and 12% of male deaths worldwide every year.
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Powerful campaign shows tobacco use fuelling India's TB epidemic
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, has launched the world's first national tobacco control mass media campaign to warn people of the increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and dying from TB associated with smoking cigare
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Proposed 26 pct sin rate on Tobacco to negatively impact revenue, public h
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): India has the second largest number of tobacco users (275 million or 35 percent of all adults in India) in the world - of these at least one million die every year from tobacco related diseases. Tobacco-use imposes enormous health and economi
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