Mumbai: At a time when actor Hrithik Roshan has been propagating among his family and friends, the side effects of smoking, his close friend Shah Rukh Khan seems less likely to kick the butt anytime soon. It was learnt that a book on how to quit smoking helped Hrithik give up on this habit. Reportedly he has been passing on the same book to his smoker buddies in Bollywood including...
02:35 PM, Dec 21, 2011
London: British director Guy Ritchie may have helmed the latest Sherlock Holmes movie - 'A Game of Shadows' - but says he still has Indie sensibilities. "Filmmaking has changed as we all know. Indie movies are being muscled out in quite a conspicuous fashion and who's responsible for that and why that is the case, I'm not sure. At the same time I still see myself as an Indie filmmaker,"...
11:40 AM, Dec 19, 2011
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07:03 PM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: The new regulations on onscreen smoking that were handed out ambitiously by the the Health Ministry have been stalled as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has given in to the plea of the film makers, asking for their creative rights. The I&B Ministry has stayed the no smoking regulations by the Health Ministry. In a letter from the I&B ministry to the Health Ministry, it is clear...
09:49 AM, Dec 08, 2011
London: British singer Boy George says he has to give a friendly advice to Adele to give up smoking as she suffered from many vocal troubles. Adele, 23, had an operation on her vocal chords recently and George thinks that she should quit smoking to avoid further trouble, reported Mirror online. "If you're a singer and you smoke it really isn't a great idea. I gave up smoking six months...
01:26 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Kochi: Ernakulam is all set to become the first smoking-free tourist destination in the country. In the wake of the success of the anti-tobacco measures taken by the Ernakulam district administration, the Kochi Corporation and the district panchayat, steps have been taken to declare Ernakulam as the first smoking-free tourist destination in India. District Collector Sheik Pareeth said that Excise Minister K Babu would make the declaration of smoking-free Ernakulam...
10:55 AM, Oct 22, 2011
New Delhi: Stating that on screen representation of smoking glamorises tobacco, civil society members Wednesday urged the film industry and censor board to avoid depicting such scenes in movies. "There are several empirical studies and global evidence which show that depiction of tobacco usage in movies increases the risk of initiation of tobacco use in an indirect manner," Salaam Bombay Foundation Programme Director Devika Chadha said at a workshop. The...
11:52 AM, Sep 29, 2011
On this episode join Anupam, a smoker, on a crash course in smoking de-addiction. ...
06:56 PM, Sep 24, 2011
New York: Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were more likely to end up on medications such as antidepressants, stimulants and drugs for addiction, according to a study from Finland that hints at smoking's effect on a baby's developing brain. While the findings don't prove that cigarette smoking during pregnancy causes changes in children's brains or behaviour, they offer one more piece of evidence that should encourage women not to...
01:58 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Washington: Addiction isn't just about willpower. It's a chronic brain disease, says a new definition aimed at helping families and their doctors better understand the challenges of treating it. "Addiction is about a lot more than people behaving badly," says Dr Michael M Miller of the American Society for Addiction Medicine. That's true whether it involves drugs and alcohol or gambling and compulsive eating, the doctors group said Monday. And...
11:00 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Washington: Smokers who are inclined to take a few puffs soon after waking up may face an increased risk of developing lung, head and neck cancers than smokers who do it later. Joshua Muscat, from the Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, and colleagues investigated whether early morning puffing boosts smokers' risk of lung and head and neck cancers. "These smokers have higher levels of nicotine and possibly other tobacco...
11:02 AM, Aug 08, 2011
London: Want to know the secret to a long and healthy life? All you need to do is to follow a four-step plan: No smoking, regular exercise, not being overweight, and eating a Mediterranean-style diet daily, says a new study. Researchers claim following these simple steps could "substantially reduce" one's risk of early death. And, this is the first time, they have been able to calculate exactly how many years...
12:42 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Dubai: A special fatwa issued by a religious body here has permitted smokers to use nicotine patches during the month of Ramadan to deal with withdrawal symptoms, saying it does not violate the observance of fasting. The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) here issues list of fatwas daily to help Muslims observe their fast in the right manner during Ramadan. "Nicotine patches, which can help smokers to deal...
11:37 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Under flak for watering down pictorial warnings on tobacco products, and for coming under pressure from the tobacco lobby, for the first time the government is focusing on beedi smokers. It has planned a new ad campaign to start from Monday and wants to set up 5 labs to test beedi content. The Health Ministry's latest initiative to spread awareness on the ills of beedi smoking is a...
08:29 AM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan's return as Don had once again stirred an outcry with claims that the superstar's lighting up on screen would promote smoking in children off screen. A latest survey by the NGO Hriday Shan asked 4000 students in the capital this very question and the answers supported the outcry. When asked some students of a Delhi school, they said it was cool to smoke and that...
10:34 AM, Jul 20, 2011
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, approximately five-and-a-half million kids live in households in which someone smokes. Previous studies have shown that secondhand smoke exposure in kids can cause respiratory diseases, sids, and higher rates of asthma. Now two new studies in this week's edition of pediatrics, find secondhand smoke appears to have a big affect on the way youngsters behave. Investigators from Harvard and the tobacco free research...
10:04 AM, Jul 13, 2011
Richmond: In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use. Among the images to appear on cigarette packs are rotting and diseased teeth and gums and a man with a tracheotomy smoking. Also included among the labels are: the corpse of a smoker,...
05:57 PM, Jun 21, 2011
On Face The Nation, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if anti tobacco campaigns have been a failure. ...
12:22 AM, Jun 01, 2011
Tonight at 10 Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if anti tobacco campaigns have been a failure.
12:20 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: New, stronger pictorial warnings will finally appear on tobacco products this December but cigarette packs won't have the harsher warning that Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad himself had publicised in March 2010. Those will only go on chewable tobacco products. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "Of 35 per cent of Indian adults, only 9 per cent are using tobacco and beedi. Whereas 26 per cent are using...
08:22 AM, May 31, 2011
