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India’s fight against youth vaping: What parents need to know and watch for
Health | Oct 09, 2025, 04:15 PM ISTLearn 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 | Jun 09, 2025, 08:30 AM ISTFertility 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 | Apr 29, 2025, 06:27 PM ISTSharing 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, 07:30 PM ISTAs 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 | Sep 19, 2023, 05:01 PM ISTE-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 | Jan 24, 2020, 10:48 AM ISTE-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 | Nov 21, 2019, 04:23 PM ISTIn 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 | Sep 19, 2019, 07:49 PM ISTThe 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 | Sep 19, 2019, 07:51 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 10, 2019, 10:39 PM ISTTaking 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 | Jan 16, 2018, 09:31 PM ISTThe 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
Dec 30, 2014, 11:20 AM ISTNew 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