Tax hike on cigarettes can prevent four million deaths in India: report

ADB report points out that the amount of money spent by the poorest 10 million male smokers on cigarettes a day can actually help them buy 1,400 …

Faceless Figures

The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is …

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Is UN giving in to industry?

UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments

Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

Neo-addiction

Youngsters are getting hooked on flavoured e-cigarettes. Studies belie manufacturers’ claims

LIC’s unhealthy choice

Life Insurance Corporation invested more than Rs 3,500 crore last year in the tobacco industry 

India Exposed!

It is unimaginable. Air quality in most Indian cities is at critical levels. And the culprit - respirable particulates - are way above danger …

Pictorial warnings still missing from cigarette and chewing tobacco packets

No tobacco product sampled in Delhi had new warning mandated from April 1, says survey by non-profit

Unholy smoke!

Inclusion of intellectual property in bilateral investment agreements is injurious to the health of developing nations

No Escape

A recent US study has conclusive evidence on the deadly nature of fine particulate matter in the air. These unseen particles, mostly emitted by …

Millions live with low back pain, but addressing smoking, obesity and workplace ergonomics could curb the trend, research shows

A whopping 843 million people around the world will be living with the condition. The problem of low back pain isn’t going away unless …

Stub cut short

SMOKED OUT

No Smoking

The moral treadmill

Is an individual solely responsible for his/her wellness?

Vitamin C helps smokers

UNITED NATIONS

SECONDHAND ISSUE

Smoking sans smoke

After you quit

Singapore

Smoking away sanity

Focused and sharp

No more smoking