Directors of 17 regional cancer treatment centres in India, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have recently written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ban smokeless tobacco products like gutkha.

India has the highest number of oral cancer patients in the world with 75, 000 to 80,000 cases reported every year.

The number of people fined by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) for smoking in public places shot to three times between 2007 and 2010, with more than 16,000 people being prosecuted over last year itself.

Cigarettes and other tobacco products will need to be kept out of sight in large stores and supermarkets by 2012 and in small shops by 2015
London, March 9: All shops in England will be banned from openly displaying tobacco products by April 2015 as part of a government package of tough measures to cut smoking.

Announcing the legislation on national No Smoking Day, the department of health sai

KOCHI: College students in the city actively took part in the exercise towards making Ernakulam the country

In a move to send a strong message, the health department of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued show-cause notices to its five ward medical officers (WMOs) for inaction during the anti-tobacco week in January this year.

The WMOs are from the ward offices of Ghole Road, Kothrud, Ahmednagar Road, Kasba Vishrambaugwada and Dhankavdi.
The anti-tobacco week was held in collaboration with t

Stronger, more revulsive images, it is hoped, will discourage tobacco use even more

In January, the Supreme Court ordered that all cigarette packets and tobacco products must carry pictorial warnings that are stronger than the current ones.

Govt wants large cigarette cos to admit that they lied to public about the dangers of smoking
AP WASHINGTON

The Justice Department wants the largest cigarette manufacturers to admit that they lied to the public about the dangers of smoking, forcing the industry to set up and pay for an advertising campaign of self-criticism for past behavior.
As part of a 12-year-old lawsuit against the tobac

The next time you see a pan masala major marketing itself as