China has ordered that smoking scenes in films and television series be restricted, amid concern it is failing to deliver on pledges to help its 300 million smokers kick the habit.

The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), China

Jorhat, Jan.

Over 57,000 people die in Bangladesh every year from tobacco-related diseases and some 16 per cent of all deaths among people aged 30 years and above are attributable to tobacco use.

Just A Few Cigarette Puffs Lead To Formation Of Cancer-Causing

The temple city Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa, is claimed to have recorded highest detection of smoking ban law violators in the country. The local Bhubaneswar-Cuttack commissionerate of police has detected at least 6,000 violators between April and December 2010 and realised penalty amount worth `6,89,450 from them.

Bhopal: Minister of State for Public Health, Family Welfare, AYUSH and Medical Education Mahendra Hardia has taken a serious note of the news that some hookah centres are making people smoking-addicts by running their joints in the garb of coffee shops and has instructed to take stern action against them.

Nalini Ravichandran | ENS

CHEWING tobacco is no better than smoking when it comes to the ill health effects.
But a research done on 65,000 persons in the districts of Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram has revealed that more than 12 per cent of those studied, above the age group of 20, are into tobacco chewing regularly.

The Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Saveetha Dental College, con