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
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...
10:26 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New York: Babies born to snuff-using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant, according to a Swedish study. Snuff -- ground tobacco that is high in nicotine but doesn't generate the same additional chemicals as cigarette smoke because it's not burned -- is generally assumed to be safer than cigarettes, said lead researcher Anna Gunnerbeck, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. That's...
12:23 PM, Sep 01, 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
New Delhi: Union cabinet is likely to take a decision on a request from the tobacco industry to increase the duration of display of a set of pictorial warning in cigarette and other tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry approached the Cabinet for a direction in this regard to seek clarity about the demands being made by other ministries who are facing the brunt of decrease in tobacco production in...
03:24 PM, Dec 03, 2010
London: Nicotine that makes smoking addictive is one of the chemicals in cigarettes that can trigger breast cancer, says a new research. Normal cigarettes are known to contain at least 60 cancer-causing compounds, including carbon monoxide, tar and arsenic, but until now nicotine had not been on the list, reports the
Daily Mail. Researchers looked at both breast cancer cells and normal cells to see if nicotine spurred tumour growth...
04:35 PM, Aug 24, 2010
Chemical extracts from cigarette butts can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, a study in China has found. ...
11:57 AM, May 13, 2010
Consumers will have to pay more for goods like TVs, gold and silver. ...
01:05 PM, Feb 26, 2010
The huge negative balance on his account was reversed back to normal. ...
03:44 PM, Jul 16, 2009
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That is just entertainment, says Ghulam Nabi Azad. ...
01:03 AM, Jun 01, 2009
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That is just entertainment, says Ghulam Nabi Azad. ...
01:03 AM, Jun 01, 2009
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