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 problem, say campaigners, is that chewing tobacco has always been seen as socially acceptable in India. Whole families, generally unaware of the danger, will share these products at the end of ...

The Health Ministry on Tuesday said it is actively working to reduce the tobacco use among the youth with 'Tobacco Free Youth ...

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 ...

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 ...

The combination of modest life adjustments along with careful behavior leads to reduced carcinogen exposure which diminishes ...

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 ...

COP10, under the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco ... of India announced a ban on e-cigarettes in 2019, following which manufacturing, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage ...

involved in the illegal storage and possible trading of Indian-origin cigarettes and spit tobacco without proper documents, thereby evading tax payment. Narasimha Reddy said that upon meticulous ...