Approximately 0.1 million people die every year in Pakistan from diseases caused by tobacco, doctors quoted medical researches as saying on Sunday on

AFTER a two year debate over the content of pictorial warnings of tobacco products, the warnings will final see the light of day on Ma 31, in accordance with an undertaking given by the Union Health Ministry to the Supreme Court.

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Smoking causes lung cancer and is implicated in a dozen other cancers, but scientists have generally dismissed its importance in breast cancer, saying it plays little role, if any.

Noted expert on tobacco control, Dr Prakash C Gupta today focused on tobacco consumption in the Indian context and underlined the need for a rethink in control strategies. Delivering the Dr KC Borooah Foundation day oration at the Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute, Gupta remarked that the tobacco problem in India is unique, because it implies a vast array of smoking and smokeless tobacco products.

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CHENNAI: Tobacco control should be made a part of disease-control activities in order for it to succeed, V.Shanta, chairman, Cancer Institute (WIA), said.

Akshaya Kumar Sahoo