Cigarette Smoking News

We bring you an overview of the survey conducted by an Indian institute which reveals how teens have become the top vouchers of tobacco products, read on.

Here we provides an overview of the potential health risks associated with smoking, as well as tips on how to reduce the risk of developing serious health conditions. Read on.

More and more young working women across metropolitan cities in India are resorting to smoking.

The findings from over 215,000 survey respondents provide strong support for prioritizing efforts to reduce cigarette experimentation among adolescents.

The survey showed that over 52 percent teenagers believed that smoking helps increase concentration levels.

The accusations were based on a special law called the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act (RICO), initially promulgated to combat organised crime groups like the mafia.

An estimated 2.6 million adult Australians were smokers in 2014, and smoking remains the country's leading preventable cause of death and disease.

Akshaya Shanmugam holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in Anna University, Chennai and a Master’s degree and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Researchers examined the withdrawal responses in millimeter-long roundworms Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), which get hooked on nicotine just like humans.

A key finding was that increasing integration into the social network was a significant predictor of subsequent abstinence, researchers said.

The researchers set up a 13-week experiment during which they administered nicotine-infused water to mice.

A death is notched up as premature when a person departs before their expected age — say 75 or 80 depending on the country — and is usually preventable through a healthier lifestyle.

Some states in India, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Punjab, Maharashtra and Kerala, have prohibited sales of e-cigarettes, while tobacco cigarettes remain legal.

In addition to finding that current smokers were 20 percent more likely to quit smoking when pack prices went up by a dollar, researchers showed that there was a three per cent overall reduction in smoking risk.

Most smokers, according to the study take up smoking during their teens and half of nations had a smoking rate of at least 15 percent for boys compared to the 8 percent of girls.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), tobacco uses kill nearly six million people in a year.

In the video, a man is seen throwing a cigarette butt inside a sewer hole and soon after that, it explodes in the man's face.

A Kremlin spokesman said such a ban would need serious consideration and consultation with other Ministries. 

A study led by an Indian researcher has shown that cigarette smoking substantially reduces the lifespan of people living with HIV, potentially even more than HIV itself.

Researchers also found that white teens were more than twice as likely as African-American adolescents to smoke for weight loss.