Curfew in Kashmir, poor infrastructure put cancer patients at greater risk
When scheduled therapies are skipped, the treatment cycle of cancer patients gets upset
India had the second highest number of cancer deaths in Asia in 2019: Lancet
Apart from tobacco smoking and ambient air pollution, high prevalence of smokeless tobacco public health concern in South Asian countries
Akshay Kumar’s ‘Vimal’ apology: Health activists criticise action, say damage has been done
Activists urge amendment of Act that regulates tobacco products and surrogate advertising promulgated 20 years ago
How a smoking cessation aid circumvents challenges of tobacco harm reduction
Governments should regulate ENDS either as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) or under a special act, instead of banning them altogether
Cancer not a single disease: it has multiple causes and as many treatments
With time, cancer has increasingly come to be understood as a lifestyle and an environmental disease with several causal pathways
Tobacco hurts more than just your lungs – it damages the communities that grow it
Despite the 2005 WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and falling smoking rates, global population growth means total tobacco use …
Your cigarette continues to harm environment long after it is extinguished
Tobacco kills more than seven million people a year and is currently the world’s single biggest cause of preventable death
Nicotine for vaping should be legalised in Australia: 40 international and Australian experts
When nicotine is separated from the toxins in tobacco smoke and used in its pure form, there is little evidence of long-term harm
As gutkha stands banned, dohra consumption rising in Uttar Pradesh
Dohra does not contain any statutory warning label and hence, consumers are unaware of its health hazards
Tobacco control policies are effective, says WHO report
The report further finds that tobacco control does not harm economies and has a modest impact on employment
Fleetingly scary
Film>> Tobacco, Threat to Life and Development directed by Mike Pandey 12 minutes
What are these ‘cancer vaccines’ I’m hearing about? And what similarities do they share with COVID vaccines?
Rather than preventing disease, these vaccines are a personalised treatment for cancer, to combat disease
Supreme Court orders tobacco industry to comply with bigger health warning rules
The new rules make it mandatory for tobacco companies to cover 85 per cent of the packet surface with health warnings
Addiction as muse
Book>> Coda by Simon Gray, Faber and Faber London 2008-11-24
Tobacco behind more than a quarter of India’s cancer cases
Released by the National Cancer Registry of India, a new report has profiled the country’s cancer landscape
Tobacco consumption declines across states, dry Bihar consumes more alcohol than Maharashtra: NFHS-5
Alcohol consumption among women aged 15 years and above highest in north-eastern states
World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco farming adding to global food crisis, says WHO
Growing sustainable crops can help address acute global food insecurity, governments urged to stop tobacco farming subsidies
Diagnose the discord
Latest data shows that cancer is rising sharply in India. It's time we understood the intriguing facts from cancer registries to frame a more …
Cancer, who cares!
Warnings, pictures showing ill effects of tobacco on packets have not worked
Ominous Signs: How deadly cancer is for India
While cases have increased in all the 28 cancer registries in India, mortality has gone up in 14. People of northeastern states are most …
Don't ignore the deadly sign
Government buckles under pressure from tobacco industry and halts order on large pictorial warnings on tobacco products. Will profit prevail over …
Only four countries making full efforts to end smoking: WHO
Netherlands, Mauritius join Brazil and Turkey in implementing all recommended measures to reduce tobacco smoking globally
Ads term gutkha ban unfair
Analysts call the ads misleading; health ministry plans action against industry
Big tobacco blows new smoke rings
A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules
Gutkha sympathiser
Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others
