Spreading awareness: (From left) S. Elango, Director - Public Health, Government of Tamil Nadu; Dinesh Bhatnagar, Additional Director-General of Health Services, Government of India; V.

BY YOJNA GUSAI
NEW DELHI

VICTORIOUS: Health Minister Anbumani
Ramadoss has been a strong advocate of a

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss couldn't have given a better birthday gift to the father of the nation.

Smoking damages lungs in many ways as the irritating effect of cigarette smoke attracts cells to the lungs that cause inflammation.

According to the head of pulmonology department, Liaquat University of Medicine and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Dr Rashid Ahmed Khan, cigarette smoke also stimulated inflammatory cells to release elastics, an enzyme that broke down elastic fibres in lung tissue.

BY YOJNA GUSAI
NEW DELHI

Suvi Dogra / New Delhi October 4, 2008, 0:24 IST

Hit by the recent government diktats on banning smoking in public places, cigarette manufacturing firms are putting up a brave front and are gearing up to cope with the revenue loss.

AHMEDABAD: If you are still taking the ban on smoking in public places lightly, sample this: Every year, over 16,000 people, especially youngsters, a
re diagnosed with oral and lung cancer caused by tobacco in Gujarat.