Wrong food habits 'cause colon cancer'
About 1.6 lakh persons fall victims to colon cancer in the USA every year, mainly due to the excessive intake of meat based products and the use of alcohol and tobacco, while the incidence of the
About 1.6 lakh persons fall victims to colon cancer in the USA every year, mainly due to the excessive intake of meat based products and the use of alcohol and tobacco, while the incidence of the
The World Health Organization (WHO) is blowing smoke when ti says, as it did on October 14 in Geneva during talks on a global tobacco control treaty, that developing countries must increase taxes on
To give Americans world-class health care, the government and private organizations should focus on 20 areas -from asthma to tobacco dependence - which could have a broad impact on patients, families
The Andhra Pradesh state government has banned sale of pan masala and zarda products which also do not contain tobacco. the State had prohibited the sale of pan masala, gutkha and zarda products
Ceejay Healthcare launches nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in India under the brand name NuLife to eliminate tobacco addition. NuLife is priced at an affordable Rs 2.50 per gum as against the
Who says tobacco is bad for health? In fact, the Guntur-based (Andhra Pradesh) Bommidala BBM is putting the much-maligned leaf, its waste to be precise, to good use. The waste is used to produce a
The Tamil Nadu Government's alleged laxity in implementing its own order which banned manufacture, distribution and sale of pan masala, gutkha and chewing tobacco in the state, came up for hearing at
President Yoweri Museveni said recently that his prayers would be answered if a thousand major cigarette companies operated in Uganda instead of just one. The one, British American Tobacco, provides
The fat lady sang, and it was over. As the ban on tobacco adverts came into force at midnight last night, a voluptuous soprano voiced their swansong. Sarah Jane Dale - draped in torn purple satin by
The Centre on Wednesday approved a legislation to protect passive smokers from the hazards of smoking and to discourage people from consuming tobacco products. In a meeting headed by Prime Minister
In reply on a public interest litigation seeking directions for taking immediate steps to ban the manufacture, distribution and sale of gutka, along with other chewable tobacco products, the state of
The World Health Organisation has adopted a final text of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, but many major countries, including the United States and Germany, said they would not adopt the
Ceejay Healthcare is looking to take its tobacco cessation products, currently being rolled out in India, into other global markets and at prices that could well give the Pfizers, GlaxoSmithKlines
Small tobacco players, who had set up shop in Assam following a 10-year excise exemption as part of the special package for the state, are up in arms against withdrawal of the facility with
When talking tar, few cigarettes can match Indonesia's kreteks, the aromatic mix of tobacco and cloves preferred by 90 per cent of the country's smokers. Decades of public health campaigns in the
Traders from Kerala, Bihar, Assam, Maharashtra, and Gujarat deplored the proposed law that would ban sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products within 100 yards of education institutions and
Global cancer cases could jump by 50% during the next two decades, mainly because of aging populations, increasing tobacco use in developing countries and unhealthy diets, warns a new report
Smoking is all set on the road to being snuffed out of public life, with the 'skull and bones' logo implying danger likely to find itself on the package of every tobacco product - courtesy the
The Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Ajit Singh, has promised the tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh that he would take up their problems with the Union Commerce Ministry and other Ministries and strive
The outlawed Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) imposed a ban on the sale and consumption of chewing tobacco products in Manipur saying anyone violating their diktat would face dire consequences. The