A Pandemic Driven Approach to Tobacco Control It’s time to strengthen the tobacco control movement
As India fights the pandemic with its back to the wall, medical experts have flagged the need to strengthen the tobacco control movement countrywide. Addressing experts from across the country on Sunday at an event organised by the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, health expert Dr Rana J Singh emphasised that with an estimated 267 million tobacco users in India, the time has come to ‘help users quit and bring in place bans that would hamper the initiation of smoking, especially among the youth’.
Cheap herbal cigarettes marketed illegally cause of concern: Researchers
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Wed, Feb 10 2021 20:21 IST |
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Online availability of cheap herbal cigarettes and bidis which are being illegally marketed as healthier alternatives to traditional cigarettes is a matter of concern, warn researchers from the Oral Health Sciences Centre of the Postgraduate Instit. Image Source: IANS News
Chandigarh, Feb 10 : Online availability of cheap herbal cigarettes and bidis which are being illegally marketed as healthier alternatives to traditional cigarettes is a matter of concern, warn researchers from the Oral Health Sciences Centre of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here.