Tobacco Ban
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How does smoking worsen endometriosis pain and infertility? Doctor explains the hidden danger
Health | May 31, 2025, 11:33 AM ISTThis World No Tobacco Day, let's broaden the dialogue. Let's get beyond lungs and hearts and begin discussing wombs, hormones, and unseen suffering. For women with endometriosis, quitting tobacco might be the most revolutionary act of self-recovery they ever take.
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World No Tobacco Day 2025: Know how oncologists see the impact of tobacco on cancer progression
Health | May 31, 2025, 09:26 AM ISTOn World No Tobacco Day 2025, let's know how oncologists see the impact of tobacco on cancer progression. It is always important to know about the early screening and tips to quit smoking to reduce its deadly implications.
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World No Tobacco Day 2025: Date, theme, history and significance of the day
Health | May 30, 2025, 02:53 PM ISTAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 37 million children aged 13-15 years worldwide use tobacco. The day is a global initiative by the WHO to end the use of tobacco. Read on to know the date, theme, history and significance of World No Tobacco Day.
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Harsh Vardhan bats for total ban on tobacco, its products
India | May 31, 2020, 08:02 PM ISTUnion Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on the World Tobacco Day on Sunday said the battle against tobacco was a personal fight for him and he wanted total ban on it and its products.
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Karnataka govt bans spitting tobacco products at public places
India | May 30, 2020, 01:04 PM ISTThe Karnataka government has banned spitting of tobacco products and paan at public places, in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the state.
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After liquor ban, Bihar plans to prohibit 'khaini' too
India | Jun 09, 2018, 11:36 AM ISTAccording to reports, the Bihar government has written a letter to the Centre requesting it to notify khaini as a food product by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
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Tobacco doubles death risk in HIV patients: Lancet
Lifestyle | Jun 02, 2017, 06:49 PM ISTTobacco use, including snuff, chewing and smoking, is twice likely to cause death in HIV patients as the infection itself, thereby increasingly becoming the 'silent killer', researchers have warned.
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69 percent of Indians believe that warning images on tobacco packs don't work
Lifestyle | Jun 01, 2017, 10:53 AM IST63 percent of smokers believe that government should come up with strict rules to tackle smoking addiction in country
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Driver in Yogi Adityanath's convoy fined for eating tobacco inside secretariat
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India ranks third in largest pictorial warning on tobacco products. Find out which country tops the list
Lifestyle | Nov 11, 2016, 12:13 PM ISTIndia has moved to third position this year from 136 in 2014 in having pictorial health warning on tobacco products in the world, according to a latest report by the Canadian Cancer Society. The top
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5 important history events of 16th June
Who cares | Jun 16, 2015, 04:31 PM ISTHistory is not created in a day! But, a day can bring many changes in history. Following are five historical events that happened this day and changed the future course of the world.1. In the
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AIIMS doctors slam tobacco report of parliamentary panel
India | Apr 02, 2015, 11:28 AM ISTNew Delhi: Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), have rubbished the reports of a parliamentary panel which said that there was no Indian study to prove that the use of tobacco
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Delhi government to ban all forms of chewable tobacco from Monday
India | Mar 29, 2015, 04:02 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Delhi government will put a ban on sale, purchase and even storage of all forms of chewable tobacco including "guktha, khaini and zarda" in the national capital from Monday. "We have decided to