-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,...
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Less tobacco use can greatly cut heart disease, stroke deaths -N Gopal Raj
-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...
More »UN report cites advertising ban as powerful tool in reducing tobacco use
-The United Nations One in three people is now covered by at least one life-saving measure to limit tobacco use, according to a United Nations report which highlights the progress over the past five years of reducing potential smokers through advertising bans and awareness campaigns. According to the report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013, the number of people covered by bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship increased by almost 400...
More »Smoking bans, taxes can save 9 million Indians: study
-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...
More »58% smokers in the country without health insurance -Preeti Kulkarni
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: Despite being exposed to perils of heavy smoking, a majority of smokers (58%) in India do not have any form of health insurance, a survey conducted by private non-life insurer ICICI Lombard has found. Further, a city-wise break-up shows that the percentage of smokers with a health cover is significantly lower in Delhi (34%) and Bangalore (28%). This, despite 85% of the respondent smokers across the country admitting...
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