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A significant study has revealed that plastic pollution from cigarettes costs $26 billion a year and China, where half of the world's cigarettes are smoked contributes around 20 per cent of that global cost.
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This comes in a bid to create the first 'smoke-free generation', as per the UK government's official website
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Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Sunday said that they have seized 32.5 lakhs sticks of foreign origin cigarettes worth Rs 6.5 crore at Mundra port.
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Results showed that starting smoking early is linked with higher nicotine dependency, even in young adulthood, and early starters were 30 per cent less likely to quit the habit
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A pan shop owner named Shaik Aslam has been selling banned E- cigarettes and hookah flavours to the students.
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The pulmonary symptoms of participants with tobacco exposure and preserved spirometry (TEPS) at the start of the study persisted through more than five years of follow-up, the researchers found.
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The government has put a cap on the maximum rate of GST compensation cess to be levied on tobacco products
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Heated tobacco products do not burn tobacco leaves, but rather allow users to inhale the vapour produced by heating the tobacco leaves.
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Doctors have said that bidis and smokeless tobacco are the most used tobacco products in India and are consumed disproportionately by the poor.
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here apprehended 14 passengers who arrived from Sharjah and Dubai and seized cigarettes and e-cigarettes estimated to be valued at Rs 50 lakh, during the last one week. In the latest incident, six passengers were held while trying to smuggle cigarettes and e-cigarettes from Sharjah. Customs officials […]
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Hyderabad: After smoking a pack of cigarettes for the first time, a teenager in Hyderabad, developed severe cough and throat ache complications needing medical attention. Doctors at Century Hospital, a leading multi-specialty healthcare provider in the city, on Saturday announced they have successfully treated a teenager who inspired by “Rocky Bhai”, a character of KGF […]
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New Delhi: A recent survey undertaken by Povaddo, a firm specializing in global public opinion research, revealed that nearly nine out of ten respondents (86 per cent) believe that e-cigarettes/ENDS (which includes products like vapes, heat not burn products etc) are a better alternative to cigarettes. Additionally, 87 per cent believe that the alternative products […]
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According to information available, the unidentified suspects gained entry into Rarajeshwari kirana shop in early hours of Sunday.
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Around 4,187 cases of fire caused by carelessly thrown cigarette butts
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"This is the first study that demonstrates how chronic exposure to e-cigarettes increases the gut's susceptibility to bacterial infections, leading to chronic inflammation and other health concerns," said the researcher
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FRAI members sustain their livelihood by selling goods of daily needs which are demanded by general public like biscuits, soft drinks, mineral water, cigarettes, bidi, pan etc.
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In the India Cigarette Tax Scorecard, India got an overall score of 1.88 out of five possible points, which is slightly better than the South-East Asia average of 1.82.
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"My character is a smoker and in real life I am a non-smoker. It was extremely difficult for me to shoot the smoking scenes." said actor Nikhil Bhambri.
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The findings, published in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, show that vaping changes the expression of genes and production of proteins in respiratory cells.
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The researchers also found that when parents set strong household rules about not using tobacco -- applying to all residents -- their children were less likely to start tobacco use.