New Delhi: A youth, who had murdered a man for failing to give him a cigarette, has been sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a Delhi court which said he has no value of a human being. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau awarded the jail term to 25-year-old Rakesh for stabbing victim Suraj with a knife leading to his death, saying he did not hesitate to take law in his hands and evidence showed that he had the habit of snatching money from poor persons.
"The convict has no value for human life. He has taken away the life of a young man aged 32 years who had come to Delhi to earn his living only because the poor boy could not satisfy his (convict's) addictive urge for a cigarette," the court said and also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 upon Rakesh. According to the prosecution, the incident took place on the evening of November 27, 2010 in Sultanpuri area when Rakesh had demanded a cigarette from Suraj.
The police said Suraj had gone to the market with his uncle and cousin and on their way back to home, they started smoking 'beedi'. In the meantime, accused Rakesh who was known to them asked the victim to give him a cigarette. The victim told him that he did not have a cigarette following which Rakesh threatened to kill him if he failed to provide him with the same.
Due to Suraj's inability to give cigarette, Rakesh
02:23 PM, May 02, 2013
Kolkata: As lakhs of investors affected by the chit fund scam demand refund, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to increase tax on cigarettes by 10 per cent to help them. She said smoking more won't harm, but help investors. "We have decided to increase the tax on cigarettes by 10 per cent in order to raise money for the Saradha Relief Fund. It wouldn't harm if you...
01:57 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Sports utility vehicles, imported cars and motorcycles, mobile phones, eating out at air-conditioned restaurants and cigarettes will become costlier with Finance Minister P Chidambaram deciding to impose higher taxes on these items. On the other hand, there is good news for ladies as far as jewellery is concerned as they will be allowed to bring more duty free gold items provided they have stayed out of India for more than...
02:25 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Three teenagers including a girl were beaten up by miscreants beat after their father refused to give them cigarettes at Patan in Palamu district, police said on Monday. The teenagers' father Amrika Paswan has shop which sells cigarette. On Sunday evening some miscreants came to the shop and demanded cigarettes. ...
12:23 PM, Feb 25, 2013
There is some good news and bad news for smokers. A new study published in the New England Medical Journal has found that if you smoke, you are likely to lose 10 years of life. But if you quit smoking at 40, you are likely to gain those years back. ...
09:47 AM, Jan 28, 2013
London: Smoking 'rots' the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to a new study. Researchers from the King's College London in brain tests and analysis of health and lifestyle data of a group of over-50s found that smoking affects the brain negatively even more than high blood pressure and obesity. Participants took brain tests like learning new words or naming as many animals as they could in a...
12:46 PM, Nov 26, 2012
London: For smokers willing to kick the butt, scientists have an unusual solution - gargling with a glass of lemonade. In a new study, scientists have found that the interaction of sugar (known as glucose) with the tongue boosts attention as well as energy and can improve self control. This could help keep smokers away from the cigarettes at least in the short-term, the Daily Mail reported. The study was...
01:19 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Government has told the Supreme Court that by September 14, it will bring in a notification which will make a warning against smoking mandatory in movies. The government has said that at the beginning, interval and end of movies there will be a warning tag saying 'Smoking is injurious to health'. The Central government has told the court that it will permit smoking scenes to be...
12:27 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: A new Lancet study reveals that there are more smokers worldwide than previously thought and that the global tobacco burden may have been underestimated. In the light of these revelations, does India need tighten its anti-tobacco campaign? The new study says that over half the world's population consumes tobacco. That's around 852 million people worldwide according to the new estimates. 661 million worldwide smoke and 247 million are...
06:32 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Australia's HC upheld a controversial packaging plan for cigarettes, saying they must be less attractive and bear graphic health warnings. ...
05:35 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Los Angeles: Pop diva Madonna is not pleased with her 15-year-old daughter Lourdes after she was recently spotted smoking a cigarette. "I wasn't very happy. I am a tough mother but I don't think I'm as tough as I should be. I think I need to be tougher. It's hard - every day is a negotiation. But cigarette smoking I'm not very fond of - for anyone," she said. The...
11:56 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Shankarpura: Welcome to India's perhaps only tobacco-free village - Shankarpura in Haryana, that comes as a breath of fresh air, quite literally. While elders puffing the traditional hookah, and discussing worldly issues has been a part of Haryana's socio-cultural milieu, the village of Shankarpura chose to break away from the tradition by becoming perhaps the only village in the country which is free from tobacco. Manpal Singh Selwal, Chairman of...
08:26 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Anirban, a good old friend, still remembers the kick that landed on his butt as a result of his adamant refusal to kick the butt. ...
01:06 PM, May 31, 2012
Washington: It's known that women find it a bit harder to kick the butt than men. Now, a new study has found why - it's because their brains respond quite differently to nicotine than male smokers. When a person smokes, the number of nicotine receptors in the brain - which bind to nicotine and reinforce the habit of smoking - are thought to increase in number. Researchers at the Yale...
10:40 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: While cine-goers are still raving about the latest foreign import Maryam Zakaria, who set the screens ablaze in the recent Agent Vinod, there's another international hottie gearing up to woo the nation. International model Era Tsariova, who has taken the Russian modelling industry by storm, is making her way to Bollywood with Goyal & PY Films' Cigarette Ki Tarah directed by Akashaditya Lama. Hailing from St Petersburg, Era has...
12:33 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the health and family welfare ministry on film director Mahesh Bhatt's plea seeking quashing of a notification prohibiting smoking scenes in movies. Bhatt said that the government's notification of Sep 27, 2011 was 'illegal and arbitrary' and violated his fundamental rights. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher refused to stay the notification as sought...
03:53 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: Smokers can greatly cut down the risk of disease and death by replacing cigarettes with their smokeless version. They provide a much safer alternative to smokers, because they continue to deliver nicotine without the harmful effect of smoking, says Brad Rodu, professor of medicine from the University of Louisville (UofL), who led the study. 'Quit or die' has been the brutal message delivered to 45 million American smokers -...
06:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Washington: Cannot resist your urge to tweet or check emails? Don't get surprised, as a new study has found that checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. US researchers who carried out an experiment to test the will power of 205 people, aged 18 to 85, in the German city of Wurtzburg found that most of them were more likely to give in to urge...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Smoke emitted from one mosquito repellant coil is equivalent to those of 100 cigarettes, thus causing harm to a large number of people in India, an expert said Wednesday. "Not many people know about it, but the damage done to your lungs by one mosquito coil is equivalent to the damage done by 100 cigarettes. This was according to a recent study conducted in Malyasia," said Chest Research...
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