-PTI The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for the Centre to enforce rules on advertisement of Tobacco products at their sale outlets that prohibits display of ads larger than 60 cm x 45 cm at shops. The court also slammed the central government for "conniving" with the Tobacco lobby when people are daily dying of cancer. A Bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi quashed the interim order of the Bombay...

-The Telegraph Guwahati: Assam today took a step towards becoming the first state in the country to ban all smokeless Tobacco products with the state government tabling a bill in the Assembly to this effect. The Assam Health (Prohibition of Manufacturing, Advertisement, Trade, Storage, Distribution, Sale and Consumption of Zarda, Gutkha, Panmasala, etc, Containing Tobacco) Bill, 2013, which was introduced in the Assembly by health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma,...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The World Health Organisation wants India's public to give up Bollywood songs as caller tunes on their mobile phones and replace them with short health messages from superstars of India's entertainment industry. The global health agency today launched what is being dubbed as the world's first attempt to promote health campaigns via caller tunes, drawing on the voices of 10 personalities from Bollywood and other entertainment sectors. Amitabh Bachchan's...

-The Hindu Clamping down on Tobacco use, with measures such as tripling taxes on cigarettes and bidis, could cut by a quarter the deaths from heart disease and stroke that occur in India over the next decade, according to a modelling study just published in PLOS Medicine. Over nine million lives could be saved between 2013 and 2022 by vigorously implementing Tobacco control policies in this country, say Sanjay Basu of Stanford...

-PTI   India could prevent over nine million deaths due to cardiovascular disease over the next decade if it implements smoking bans and levy higher Tobacco taxes, a new study has found. Smoke-free laws and increased Tobacco taxes would yield substantial and rapid health benefits by averting future cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths, researchers said. "Smoke-free legislation has not been consistently implemented, one in three adults reported being exposed to smoking at work in 2009...