Keralites spend 9% salary on tobacco!

According to data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey India, 2009/2010, 64 per cent of adults who work in smokefree environments live in a smokefree home, compared with 42 per cent of those who work where smoking is permitted. The proportion of ...

STAFF REPORTER JAMMU: Expressing concern over the reports of Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) India 2009 – 10 released by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Liaison Officer Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), Dr. N.C Prabhakar ...

According to a global survey one out of every two Vietnamese male adults is a smoker, announced Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thi Xuyen on April 23 at a conference in Hanoi, organized for the implementation of an anti-tobacco law and the National ...

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A snap survey seeking to gauge the adherence by tobacco companies of the mandatory display of pictorial health warning on tobacco packages in the Capital has shown that "though slow many tobacco brands had put the health warning on the packs''. The ...

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New Delhi, March 25: India's ban on smoking in public and workplaces seems to be prompting tobacco users to refrain from lighting up even at home, a study that analysed patterns across different states suggests. The study has revealed a strong ...

The State Finance Minister has got hold of the wrong end of the stick with respect to taxing cigarettes, beedis and tobacco products, say health activists. The decision to stand pat on beedi taxes and only a token increase in the case of cigarettes ...

Both Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir have set new standards in using taxation for tobacco control. Steadfast in its commitment to protect its citizens from the growing menace of tobacco products, the government of Rajasthan on Wednesday announced an increase ...