#Tobacco

No Tobacco Day Special: A shift beneath steady tobacco use in southern India
How UK’s generational smoking ban is reigniting India’s debate on tobacco control
Most oral cancer patients in India are diagnosed too late – and it’s killing them
Kerala: Only state in India where tobacco consumption has decreased
SF Campaign: What do cigarettes and a packet of chips have in common? More than you think
Relief for Andhra tobacco growers as Centre scraps excise duty on raw unbranded produce
India’s cancer crisis and how a ₹5 gutka habit leads to lakh-rupee medical bills
Rs 5 gutka, Rs 10 beedi—lakhs in medical bills: Centre taxes machines fuelling India’s cancer crisis
Tobacco increases sperm damage risk by four times in Indian men: Study
Printed on packets, played in theatres: What happens when you call India’s tobacco quitline
Andhra Pradesh farmers endure ordeal as burley tobacco prices continue to head south
From falling tobacco prices to seafood tariffs: Naidu seeks Centre’s aid to ease stress on Andhra farmers
World No Tobacco Day: India’s tobacco habit is killing its voice — 1 in 3 oral cancer patients don’t survive five years
Why the Health Ministry wants IPL to ban surrogate ads for tobacco, alcohol
The costly habit: Telangana spends highest on tobacco, intoxicants among larger state in country
Will reducing tobacco consumption help India’s economy?
Don’t let sportspersons promote tobacco, alcohol: Health Ministry to BCCI, SAI
World No-Tobacco Day: What is ‘reverse smoking’, which doctors are warning about?
Telangana food safety authority bans gutkha, pan masala for one year
Karnataka government bans hookah bars with immediate effect

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