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  Can increase in cigarette price reduce smoking in elderly?

  Lifestyle | August 19, 2017 16:21 IST

  A new research has suggested that a surge in the price of cigarette by a dollar can reduce the possibility of older people smoking, by 20%.

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  69 percent of Indians believe that warning images on tobacco packs don't work

  Lifestyle | June 01, 2017 10:53 IST

  63 percent of smokers believe that government should come up with strict rules to tackle smoking addiction in country

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  India remains world's second largest consumer of tobacco, though fewer Indians use it

  Lifestyle | May 31, 2017 16:08 IST

  The highest tobacco consuming state among them is Mizoram where 80.4 per cent men and 59.2 per cent women consumes tobacco.

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  Who knew! Smoking just became more life threatening due to excessive chemicals in cigarettes

  Lifestyle | June 23, 2016 16:17 IST

  More than a quarter of adults (27.5 per cent) reported having looked for information on the different components of tobacco products and tobacco smoke, many of which are known to be poisonous or cause cancer.

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  Warnings on cigarette packets have little effect: Kejriwal

  Politics | April 07, 2015 22:31 IST

  New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal today justified his government's decision to ban sale of chewable tobacco items in the national capital saying it was beneficial in long run even, but said warnings on