The number of people affected by asthma has shown an alarming increase in Sri Lanka due to increased air pollution in the cities. This was revealed on Thursday (2) by Dr.

The Punjab government here today formally declared Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) as the first “smoke free” district of Punjab.

The Health Ministry is in favour of banning smokeless forms of tobacco which are being used by 25 per cent of the population and are known to contain chemical components with serious implications f

Smokers can greatly cut down the risk of disease and death by replacing cigarettes with their smokeless version.

Every year 5.6 million people died in the world due to tobacco.

This was stated by Tobacco Control cell Hyderabad in a seminar on Monday.

This time, when the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) chooses the new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products they will have to be extra careful.

With the earlier photo — a blurred image that appeared to be resembling footballer John Terry — creating trouble, the Union health ministry has asked the DAVP to give them more options of photos for the tobacco manufacturers, mandating that pictures should be 'general'.

After Budgam district of central Kashmir was declared as tobacco-free, Srinagar district is to follow the suit by imposing similar restrictions in all the educational institutions to make the summe

The district administration will soon adopt stringent measures to curb the sale and use of tobacco and tobacco-based products in the vicinity of educational institutions.

Complying with the directions of the Health Department, the sale of such products has been banned within a radius of 400 yards from educational institutions.