Cancer patients, who are victims of oral tobacco abuse, have written to social activist Anna Hazare seeking his intervention to pressurise the Union Government to hasten the implementation of pictorial warnings on tobacco products to ensure that youngsters don't fall prey to them.

Leaders in oncology from across the country have for the first time come together to join the war against smokeless tobacco, believed to be behind 96% of oral cancer cases in India.
The heads of 17 regional cancer centres, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ban smokeless tobacco products.

BHUBANESWAR: A grim future awaits the state. The women folk in the State have developed a penchant for tobacco products like betel quid with tobacco and gutkha.
In four years, around 5 per cent more women have joined the current tobacco-chewers' fraternity. This affinity for the smokeless tobacco bodes ill for the State, given the influence the mothers have on the children.

NEW DELHI: Health activists campaigning against the tobacco industry are concerned at its continuing defiance of the Indian tobacco control laws.

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

Vidya Krishnan

Neha Gulia, a 24-year-old from Delhi, has been smoking for eight years.

Liffy Thomas and R. Sujatha

NGOs and State government have played a pivotal role in taking home the message about ills of using tobacco

Smoke free: Several buildings are becoming