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Big Tobacco's Environmental Impact is 'Devastating', Says WHO

The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realize as it is one of the world's biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the WHO charged Tuesday. The World Health Organization accused the industry of causing widespread deforestation, diverting badly needed land and water…

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Tips and tricks to quit smoking - from setting quit date to changing diet

Everyone knows smoking is bad for your health. In honour of World No Tobacco Day, here are the best expert tips and tricks to quit smoking and improve your health as well as lifestyle

Daily Mirror

World No Tobacco Day: WHO raises alarm on tobacco industry environmental impact, human health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Children in Uttar Pradesh get addicted to tobacco at 9.5 years, says survey

LUCKNOW: Children in UP are just around nine-and-a-half years of age when they initiate cigarette smoking. Children even younger than that—about seven-year-old girls and eight-year-old boys—initiate the smoking of bidi.

The Times of India

Tobacco affects GDP, environment, kills non-smokers: Docs

NAGPUR: Most of us know that tobacco kills tens of thousands of people at a young age in India, with Vidarbha being the capital of oral cancer due to the excessive consumption of ‘kharra’, the local form of chewable tobacco. But the loss is not just limited to those who…

The Times of India

Qld plans tougher smoking, tobacco laws

A proposed crackdown on tobacco in Queensland could lead to a smoking ban at outdoor markets and the licensing of vape sales.

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Aiming to be smoke free

Today marks World No Tobacco Day and this year marks a special milestone for the anti-tobacco movement in Thailand.

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Tobacco's environmental threat

Tobacco kills our environment, not just people. Tobacco causes over 8 million deaths every year globally and 81,000 in Thailand. Simultaneously, each year, tobacco destroys a vast landmass roughly the size of 44,000 Suan Luang Rama IX parks, the largest green park in Bangkok, causes massive deforestation and pollutes our…

Bangkok Post

Of lungs, trees and sin stocks

Large corporate enterprises themselves are making efforts to reduce the harm of tobacco consumption

The Hindu

Focus on World No Tobacco Day

Screening for oral cancer, raids against smoking in public planned

The Hindu

E-liquid firm sends vaping message to WHO for World No Tobacco Day

The WHO has consistently advised against vaping

Wales Online

Legal age for buying cigarettes in UK could be upped to 21 - or even 25

A Government plan to make the UK smoke-free by 2030 will be published this year

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Indonesia’s young people are taking on Big Tobacco

The tobacco industry profits from child labour and sky-high youth smoking rates in Indonesia. Young people are fighting back.

360info

African countries need tighter controls to curb growing tobacco use

Average global smoking rates have fallen over the past 12 years with the proportion of people aged 15 or older who smoke declining from 22.6% in 2007 to 19.6% in 2019.

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Special Report: Tobacco's toxic reach

The environmental impacts of the tobacco industry, and its attempts to divert attention from them, are only beginning to be realised.

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Big Tobacco’s toxic waste dodge

The waste tobacco products create is an increasingly recognised environmental hazard. Environmental laws might be used to tackle it.

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Don't be fooled by Big Tobacco's sustainability awards

Tobacco companies want you to know they are great corporate citizens. But it’s all a fig leaf for their environmental offences.

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Malaysia makes case for smoking end game

Malaysia’s plan to phase out tobacco will cost the country tax revenue, but economics suggest it will benefit the country in the long run.

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Bhutan banned smoking and it didn’t go so well

The world watched as Bhutan enforced a blanket ban on tobacco: could the solution be as effective as it was simple?

The Conversation

Cigarette ads were banned decades ago. Let's do the same for fossil fuels

There is no reasonable disagreement that humanity needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. People might argue over how large a reduction is necessary or about the best ways to achieve it, but almost everyone agrees it has to be done.

The Hindu

Cancer hospital’s initiative to help tobacco farmers grow alternative crops

More than 15,000 high-grade saplings and over 8,000 saplings of lucrative seasonal fruits had already been supplied to the farmers free of cost under the project

The Hindu

Jharkhand to get WHO award for tobacco control

National Tobacco Control Programme was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate in the State was 51.1 per cent

The Times of India

Rajasthan hopes 2 crore people will quit tobacco this year

JAIPUR: To mark World Tobacco Day on May 31, the health department is preparing to launch a massive campaign to encourage people to take a pledge not to consume tobacco. In 2019, Rajasthan had set a record in which over 1.13-crore people had taken a pledge not to consume tobacco.…

The Times of India

About a third cut smoking for Covid fear, as many took it up

MUMBAI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown affected smokers in a diverse manner. While nearly a third of smokers interviewed for a national survey said they either cut down smoking or thought of quitting, fearing Covid-19 would severely affect them, another one-third increased smoking due to "loneliness" and "boredom" brought…

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu: Tobacco use not just health hazard, an eco burden too

CHENNAI: Lectures, walkathons and survey releases will happen over the weekend across the city for World No Tobacco Day (May 31). But messages echoing from everywhere are the same – TN, like every other state, should bring down the use of tobacco to reduce health and environmental hazards.

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