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“Tobacco health warnings”— the theme for this year’s No Tobacco Day on March 31 st , reinforces the need to step up graphic warnings on tobacco packages to discourage consumers from using tobacco in any form—smoking cigars, cigarettes, water pipes, hookah and beedis and the non smoking version such as chewing tobacco or sniffing powdered tobacco . Several international studies have proved that effective health warnings, especially graphic details of the health hazards of tobacco can motivate users to quit using tobacco and discourage first timers from getting into the habit. More and more countries are beginning to follow the guidelines drafted in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and putting up a spirited fight to beat the tobacco industry as it tries to lure more hapless people into tobacco addiction. Tobacco Trouble Unable to plug tobacco at the supply level, health organizations all over the world issue repeated warnings about the devastating effects of tobacco o

GENEVA (AFP) — Pictures of rotting lungs, miscarried foetuses and bleeding brains should be put on all tobacco packages as they are effective in preventing tobacco use, the World Health Organisation said Friday. "Today, WHO urged governments to require that all tobacco packages include pictorial warnings to show the sickness and suffering caused by tobacco use," said the UN health agency in a statement. Graphic warnings showing illnesses caused by tobacco have been put on cigarette packagings in countries such as Brazil, Canada, Singapore and Thailand. Studies have indicated that they help smokers to quit, according to the UN health agency, which launched its own explicit poster campaign for World No Tobacco Day on May 31. "Effective health warnings, especially those that include pictures, have been proven to motivate users to quit and to reduce the appeal of tobacco for those who are not yet addicted," said the WHO. However, the WHO noted that nine out of 10 people

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 Around 229 million males in India consume tobacco. Only China has more male smokers — 331 million.Over 11 million Indian women use tobacco while 5 million smoke cigarettes or bidis and 6 million others chew it.  As a result, female smokers in India die an average of eight years earlier than their non-smoking peers.  India is also the third leading producer of leaf tobacco, after China and Brazil. Over one lakh hectares of land is devoted to growing tobacco.  These are the findings of the world's latest `Tobacco Atlas', which will be released in Mumbai on Monday.  The Atlas has projected that tobacco will kill 6 million people annually from 2010, more than 80% of which will happen in low- and middle-resource countries like India.  These untimely deaths will drain $500 billion from the global economy each year as a result of lost productivity, misused resources, ineffective taxation and premature death. The Atlas, prepared by the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Soc

A near unanimous majority of Indians - 99 percent - favour a prohibition of smoking in public places, including workplaces, restaurants and  bars, and demand stringent enforcement of rules to check smoking in offices, a survey has found.  According to the survey released by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) Tuesday, majority of people agree that "all workers in India should be protected from exposure to second-hand smoke in workplaces".  A randomly selected sample of 1,026 respondents in four metros of the country - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata - were interviewed in December last year.  "Majority of Indians support prohibition of smoking inside public places, including workplaces, restaurants and bars and an overwhelming 99 percent of Indians strongly favour enforcement of smoke-free rules in work places in order to provide comprehensive protection from second-hand exposure to tobacco smoke," the survey found.  Further, as many as 92 percent of resp