Nicotine comes from the leaves of any tobacco plant (Nicotiana), lobeline from the blue flower of the Indian tobacco plant (Lobelia inflata), a common U. S. weed which Indians used to smoke with ...

Wrapped inside a betel leaf and placed in the side of the mouth, tobacco has been chewed for centuries in India. But it is only in the last decade that tobacco companies have started selling ...

Mumbai: Cancer continues to claim millions of lives in India, but tobacco consumption which is responsible for about 40 percent of cancer cases in the country is the single largest preventable ...

India currently ranks third globally in the highest number of cancer cases, suggesting that current tobacco control efforts have not been effective. While India has made some progress in ...

Underlining the pressing need to regulate flavoured and smokeless tobacco (SLT) products in India, a research paper published in the Journal of Cancer Policy has pointed out that SLT use ...

The WHO’s Global Adult Tobacco Survey estimated that the total number of smokers in India fell by 8.1 million between 2009 and 2017. Yet, 625,000 children still use tobacco in the country on a ...

The scientists hijacked a relative of the tobacco plant's metabolism to turn its leaves into polio-vaccine "factories". First, they needed to create new instructions for the plant to follow.