Tag: Smoking
With focus on lung health, global researchers resolve to improve ‘quit...
New health, science, and technology grants will allow 100+ researchers to explore smoking cessation and harm-reduction innovation...............
Combating the smoking menace with nicotine replacement therapy
Nicotine replacement therapy acts as a staunch support system to a person’s willingness to quit smoking, writes Professor Jagannath, former State Consultant for Karnataka and an expert on National Tobacco Control Program...………...
‘The Alternatives’ calls health ministry’s ban on e-cigarettes as regressive
The body that supports the use of e-cigarettes as an alternative has stated that the health ministry's decision will deprive millions from using what it claims as safer alternatives and a tool for quitting smoking...……………...
Banning e-cigarettes could harm public health, claims CHRA
The Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives (CHRA) and Association of Vapers India (AVI) that are batting for e-cigarettes have stated that the banning e-cigarettes would deny the country’s 120 million smokers a lower-risk means of nicotine intake and cessation...……………..
Strict measures but no ban on alcoholism & smoking: health ministry
While the health ministry has listed the strict measures that would act as deterrents for public smoking and alcoholism, it has said that there are no action plan for any ban currently….................
More than half smokers in India have tried to quit unsuccessfully,...
More than 104 million people in India alone continue to imperil their health by using combusted tobacco every day...............
Interactive billboard to detect smokers, warn them of its harms
Launched to coincide with World No Tobacco Day, “This is what you are doing to your heart right now” digital billboard installed in Gurugram shows what happens inside the body of a smoker when they smoke...............
Banning e-cigarette puts public health at risk, say experts
The two scientists while taking a contrary view to that of the WHO and the government, have appealed for conducting India centric research before deciding on any hasty move to put a blanket ban on e-cigarettes...........
“TB Cough” campaign shows tobacco use fueling India’s tuberculosis epidemic
India becomes the first country to launch a national mass media campaign establishing the link between smoking and tuberculosis........
“WHO should take note of positive attributes of e-cigarettes”
Mentioned Prof Rajesh N Sharan, an accomplished biochemist and molecular biologist working in the fields of cancer and radiation molecular biology for last over 3 decades....