TOBACCO CONTROL

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• Tobacco Harm Reduction: Towards Safer Alternatives

  Harm reduction is a well-known concept to the World Health Organization and it has been successfully used in battling HIV/AIDS, drug addiction etc.

  

• Innovation led regulations enables consumer’s freedom and not bans: key to good public policy

  It becomes perplexing when products backed by science and clearly showing consumer preference are outrightly prohibited rather than scientific evaluation and appropriate regulation. Good and progressive public policy must enable consumers to access innovative products acting on informed choice rather than driven by vested interest.

  

• Asia Pacific Declaration fights for 600 million smokers’ lives

  Public Health England’s annual reviews of all available evidence have consistently concluded that vaping is around 95% less harmful than smoking. Banning it serves only to protect the cigarette industry.

  

• Smokers are at 40 to 50 percent of higher risk of suffering severe disease mortality from the Covid-19: Dr. Harsh Vardhan

  In India, over 1.3 million deaths are attributable to tobacco use every year amounting to 3500 deaths per day, imposing a lot of avoidable socio-economic burden. In addition to the death and diseases it causes, tobacco also impacts the economic development of the country.

  

• Coalition of APTHR advocates say WHO recommended ban on vaping will only create more smokers

  World Health organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) meeting, delayed last year, could be the venue to push a global vape ban in November.

  

• ‘It’s not a war against tobacco, but a movement towards health’

  Tobacco accounts for nearly 50% of 18 types of cancer.

  

• Anti-tobacco efforts cost NGO FCRA nod

  The home ministry's revocation of the renewal of PHFI's FCRA licence has rendered the NGO ineligible to receive any funding from abroad.

  

• 2016: A busy year for health ministry

  The year also saw conduct of a single and uniform entrance examination for admissions to virtually all government and private medical colleges, after the Supreme Court in April directed that NEET (Under Graduate) will come into effect immediately.

  

• Why cigarette packaging is getting more gory

  ​A nine-year study found that Canadian warning labels caused a 2.9-4.7% drop in smoking rates, when prices were rightly factored in, countering the USFDA’s contention that they caused only a 0.088% reduction.

  

• ‘Modi government has done little for public health’

  The Narendra Modi-led government has done little for the country’s public health despite announcing new schemes, said a report published in the international medical journal, The Lancet, to coincide with the government’s completion of a year in office.

  

• WHO lauds India for anti-smoking mechanisms

  The World Health Organisation today lauded India's tobacco control mechanisms, calling the country a "champion" for curbing "tobacco marketing in films".