Chew on this: Smokeless tobacco increases oral cancer risk by over 19 times in elderly people
In people older than 60 years, smokeless tobacco increased the odds of developing oral cancer by 19.5 times compared to
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‘Tobacco products become affordable after GST’
The final price of cigarettes increases by only 0.18%. In the case of bidi and smokeless tobacco, the final price
Read MoreBiomarkers found for lymph node metastasis in oral cancer
Researchers at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai have identified five biomarkers for
Read MoreIndia should soon introduce plain packaging
Besides Australia, France, UK. Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary have introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging was
Read MoreIndia to use scarier yet banal pictorial warnings on tobacco products
Starting September 2018, all tobacco products will have scarier pictorial warnings and new grimmer written messages. And for the first
Read MoreYogi Adityanath takes pledge to control tobacco menace in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has committed himself to controlling tobacco consumption in the State by signing a strongly-worded
Read MoreGet ready for plain packaging of tobacco products
Following Australia’s example, for this year’s World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organisation is calling on
Read MoreLoosening the vice-like grip of chewing tobacco
In a much-needed measure to keep the consumption of chewing tobacco under check, the Delhi government has extended by a
Read MoreLet larger pictorial warnings stay
Nearly one million tobacco-related deaths take place in India every year, and in 2011, the total health expenditure burden from
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