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  India’s fight against youth vaping: What parents need to know and watch for

  Health | October 09, 2025 16:15 IST

  Learn the early warning signs of teen vaping as India launches Tobacco Free Youth Campaign 3.0. Spot clues, protect your child, and support a tobacco-free generation.

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  Experts highlight how alcohol consumption, vaping can silently affect fertility in men and women

  Health | June 09, 2025 8:30 IST

  Fertility issues have become rampant in both men and women. Doctors say that tobacco, alcohol consumption and vaping are silently harming the reproductive health and increasing the chances of miscarriages. Read on to know more.

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  Do sharing vapes and drinks cause meningitis? Doctor shares insight

  Health | April 29, 2025 18:27 IST

  Sharing is generally considered friendly and kind, but when it comes to vapes and drinks, it can actually be harmful and potentially even lead to severe infections like meningitis.

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  Thinking of vaping to quit smoking? Learn how it can fuel nicotine addiction

  Lifestyle | May 30, 2024 19:30 IST

  As we strive to combat the scourge of tobacco, it is essential to acknowledge the difficulty in unlearning harmful behaviours once they take root. This prevention initiatives aimed at equipping our youth with the knowledge and resilience needed to resist the allure of tobaccoo.

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  Vaping can increase the risk of asthma in adolescents, finds study

  Health | September 19, 2023 17:01 IST

  E-cigarettes have fewer toxins than regular cigarettes but still contain a mixture of harmful chemicals and raise the risk of respiratory diseases.

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  Vaping may not help with smoking cessation: Report

  Lifestyle | January 24, 2020 10:48 IST

  E-cigarettes have long been embraced as a less harmful way to satisfy smokers' nicotine addiction, but all-time high youth vaping in the country has prompted calls for action to stem their use, the Xinhua news agency reported.

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  Smoking e-cigarettes can cause chronic 'popcorn lung' condition

  Health | November 21, 2019 16:23 IST

  In yet another serious health alert on e-cigarette use, researchers have documented first-ever case of a new form of damage from vaping products in a youth which is similar to "popcorn lung," a condition seen in workers exposed to food flavouring fumes in microwave popcorn factories.

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  Monitoring platforms to ensure sellers don't offer e-cigarettes

  India | September 19, 2019 19:49 IST

  The government has issued an Ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such "alternative" smoking devices a cognisable offence attracting jail term and fine.  

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  Banning e-cigarettes "historic" move: US-based advocacy group

  India | September 19, 2019 7:51 IST

  The government on Wednesday banned production, import and sale of e-cigarettes and similar products, citing health risk to people, especially youth.

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  No e-cigarettes in India, govt may soon impose ban

  India | September 10, 2019 22:39 IST

  Taking up a proposal from the Health Ministry, the Union cabinet may, in its meeting on Wednesday, approve an ordinance to ban manufacturing and sale of e-cigarettes.

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  E-cigarettes are drawing more youth towards tobacco addiction

  Health | January 16, 2018 21:31 IST

  The research also showed that almost 90 percent of adult smokers smoked their first cigarette by the time they were 18

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  Top words of 2014: Vape, culture, photobomb, overshare

  December 30, 2014 11:20 IST

  New Delhi: Terms like 'vape', 'culture', 'photobomb', 'overshare' and 'heart emoji' were significant throughout the past 12 months and have been named top words of 2014 by various dictionaries and language monitoring groups.While Oxford Dictionaries