Electronic Cigarettes- Facts: Are they bad for you?A new study from Germany suggest that eCigarettes often thought to be a healthier alternative to tobacco ones may not be safe after all. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research WKI, in Braunschweig,...
Let me tell you what’s radical Cigarette “Industry” My Grandfather was a tobacco addict, hooked on Camel cigarettes all of his life. He was a chain smoker living inside a cozy house filled with smoke. My...
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) - cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes - are no longer diseases of the wealthy. They are responsible for 8 million deaths in the world’s poorest billion, largely composed of children and young adults....
A civil society movement is growing in lead up to the United Nations (UN) Summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), said the Chairperson of NCD Alliance Ann Keeling, who was speaking at the WHO-wide Planning Meeting for the UN High level Meeting on NCDs in Washington DC,...
Declaration at treaty meeting affirms priority of public health over tradePUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY – As the host country for this week's tobacco control treaty meetings braces for a legal challenge from Philip Morris International (PMI) to its graphic cigarette warning...
"Success hinges on treaty financing, limiting industry interference"PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY: A weeklong treaty meetings commenced on 15 November 2010 as an industry prohibited from participating attempts to influence its outcomes from the outside looking in. Philip Morris...
Uruguay proposes resolution calling for unity in face of tobacco industry interferencePUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY: A new investigative report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists exposes a wide range of tactics employed by the tobacco industry to undermine...
They changed their name to protect the guilty. They continue to operate as a cancer on the global population and must be eliminated as the source of human cancer, disease, and pollution. If human beings want to...
Tobacco use, tuberculosis (TB), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are all burgeoning problems in resource poor settings. The evidence of their potentially devastating effects on global public health is increasing and they require a coordinated approach for...
The 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health hardly two weeks ahead of us, the issues which emerged at the 39th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, France, where CNS was present, are worth re-visiting. With 50% of all deaths from lung...
During the 10th International Week of Resistance to Tobacco Transnationals (IWR) during 4-8 October 2010, civil society groups from around the world told the world: how tobacco industry interferes in the implementation of the global tobacco treaty, formally known as the World...
Despite a ban on it, smoking continues to claim thousands of lives in India each year. But in a small village in India's Haryana state a folk tradition helps people shun smoking and stay healthy. ...
31 May is World No Tobacco DayThe World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2010, is a critical point in the 2010: Year of the Lung campaign, according to theInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). Studies show that 50% of...
- Special on World Cancer Day: 4 February 2010 Most public health programmes of the Government of India are directed towards communicable diseases such as malaria, filaria, polio, tuberculosis and leprosy etc. The occurrence of certain diseases due to lifestyle changes...
This years Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball cards have already hit store shelves, minus the highly anticipated rookie card of fraudster Bernie Madoff. Yeah, that's right!! The modern day Charlies Ponzi,...
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