Wrong picture Sir — Vogue recently published a cover story that featured the Ukrainian First Lady, Olena Zelenska, posing in a navy blue coat over a long dress against the ravages of war in the...

Tobacco products manufactured, imported, or packaged on or after December 1, 2022 will display a new image with the textual health warning "Tobacco causes painful death," the Union Health Mi...

Tobacco comes from the leaf of the Nicotiana tabacum plant. The leaf is cured, aged and processed for smoking, chewing, making snuff and nicotine extraction. People started using tobacco more than 12,...

Tobacco-use continues to be one of the primary causes of chronic ailments — cancer, lung disease and stroke — in India, accounting for nearly 1.35 million deaths every year. India ranks se...

Despite the ban on public smoking, second-hand smoke exposure in India leads to direct annual healthcare costs of Rs 56,700 crore, or more than half the Centre’s health budget, a new study has e...

Right to rage Sir — Anger is typically defined as a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or aggression. It is, however, also a critically useful emotion — anger is often the human res...

In December 2021, New Zealand unveiled its plan to stop young people from smoking — it proposes to do this by raising the legal smoking age each year, starting from 2027. This would allow existi...

If New Zealand is at one end of the smoking spectrum, China is at the other end. Not quite Missouri of the early 19th century, but close enough. A pack of cigarettes costs $3.14 in China. This might c...

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish sm...

Playing with smoke can lead to devastating fires. Smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable death around the world, resulting in the demise of millions every year. But even here, there ...