Methods to improve health and life of workers discussed

Ranju Sarkar / New Delhi May 21, 2009, 0:26 IST

Pictorial health warnings could hurt demand for domestic cigarettes

The demand for tobacco products could fall sharply once tobacco-makers start displaying pictorial health warnings on their products from May 31, to abide by a Supreme Court order on the same issued earlier this month.

Mumbai Months after the anti-smoking law was implemented in the country, restaurants and bars in the city fare better than suburbs on complaince with the anti-smoking law, reveals a study. Another survey points out that air quality in smoking areas of the city is even worse than that around the Deonar dumping ground.

North Carolina, the nation

New Delhi: Just over seven months into the ban on smoking in public places, the habit has been curbed somewhat but not tamed, government Health department officials have said.

Bulgarian lawmakers voted on Friday to ban smoking in all public spaces from June 2010, ignoring protests from tobacco producers and the tourist industry in Europe's number two smoker.

The Black Sea country has already banned smoking in hospitals, taxis and offices and requires restaurant and bar owners to designate non-smoking areas, but the measures have been widely ignored.

GUWAHATI

It is past 10 p.m. but the sprawl

zoology Undersea myths The mystery behind the underwater display of natural glow, seen by sailors time and again, has been solved. It is the bioluminescent marine fireworm that secretes a mucous which gives out a green glow to attract mates and ward off predators. Reported in the March issue of Invertebrate Biology, the study provides insights into how the fireworm functions

HYDERABAD: Beedi workers