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“Sugar early in life is the new tobacco”: Scientists urge food companies to reformulate baby foods and tax sugary options
Research on individuals born in the 1950s UK revealed that those exposed to lower sugar levels duri…
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World No-Tobacco Day: As the menace of cigarette butt pollution continues, Lee Cooper weaves jeans out of them
Each pair of these eco-jeans cleans up approximately 600 cigarette butts! The jeans have passed all…
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Cancers in head and neck rising, account for 26% cases in India: Study
Cancer Mukt Bharat Foundation, a Delhi-based non-profit organisation, conducted the study by co…
PTI
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World Tuberculosis Day: India's goal to be Tuberculosis-free by 2025 ambitious but achievable, say experts
For TB to be eliminated, there should be less than one case for every 1 million in the country. Tod…
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Not just health, tobacco products also degrades ecosystem integrity: WHO report
The global health agency released a comprehensive research report titled “Tobacco: Poisoning our pl…
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World No Tobacco Day: How brands are motivating smokers to quit
Brands urge people to stub it out
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India becomes a global leader by regulating anti-tobacco warnings on OTT Platforms
The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday notified new rules for anti-tobacco warnings on OTT platform…
ANI
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World No Tobacco Day: Ways to use this lockdown as a catalyst to quit smoking
New Delhi, May 31 (IANSlife) Tobacco kills more than 1 million people each year in India, according…
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Canada plans to make tobacco companies print health warnings on individual cigarettes
Canada would be the first country in the world to do so. Its health ministry said it wants to make …
Bill Bostock
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India witnessed a drastic decline in tobacco smoking over the past decade: WHO
The same report projects that the percentage of tobacco smokers in India will further drop to 9.…
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Some of the same members of Congress pushing to restrict cigarettes and vapes are quietly investing in tobacco giants
They've invested in companies such as Philip Morris International, Altria, and British American Tob…
Kimberly Leonard
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Inside the wild, drug-fueled world of celebrity keynote speakers
From Hunter S. Thompson to Playgirl centerfolds: My high-pressure days and crazy nights at the tale…
David Kushner
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Indians finding it tough to stub out smoking. Here is why!
A rickshaw-puller by profession, Tejas has been chewing ‘gutka’ since time immemorial to him. He sa…
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50 years back, the largest oil company made exceptional climate change predictions (and then spent decades being a denier)
Exxon has been known for conducting vigorous campaigns to disprove global warming in the past. Howe…
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India’s illicit market has resulted in loss of 3 million jobs: FICCI
India’s illicit market has resulted in loss of 3 million jobs: FICCI
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Diabetes claims 1.5 million lives every year, globally: WHO
According to Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, around 422 milli…
ANI
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On Cancer Day, healthcare veteran Swati Piramal highlights the ‘moral dilemma’ in screening programmes
India’s cancer burden is expected to increase from a little over a million new cases in 2012 to ove…
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Michael Bloomberg says big tobacco preys on the world's poor
Combating smoking is one of several high-profile global campaigns Bloomberg's charitable foundation…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Despite government efforts, 625,000 Indian children still use tobacco daily
The WHO’s Global Adult Tobacco Survey estimated that the total number of smokers in India fell by 8…
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A lawyer who sued 4 major US tobacco firms and is taking Juul to court says the e-cigarette giant is 'irredeemably evil'
Juul is the buzzy e-cigarette company valued at an estimated $16.4 billion in the space of four yea…