Maldives imposes world’s first generational smoking-tobacco ban; tourists included
The ban will also apply to visitors entering the Maldives, a South Asian country popular for luxury tourism and home to 1,191 small coral islets.
The ban will also apply to visitors entering the Maldives, a South Asian country popular for luxury tourism and home to 1,191 small coral islets.
A recent study by University College London has presented the results of its findings on the impact of smoking on life expectancy in rather dramatic terms.
Few topics in mental health create as much attention and misunderstanding as the rise of vaping.
Public Health experts have called for innovative strategies for revitalising India's tobacco cessation drive and also emphasised the urgent need to reinforce conventional methods of quitting tobacco in the country.
Even modest smoking of just 1-2 cigarettes per day, either before or during pregnancy is strongly linked to serious health issues for the foetus, warned research.
Realizing that their star product, tobacco, might well go out of fashion, even sworn rivals in the tobacco world colluded to protect their common source of profit. These companies created a deliberate smokescreen around the compelling scientific research showing that tobacco was harmful to health. They poured in money to induce other scientists to question these studies to ensure that the public remained in doubt. Their actions were clearly unconscionable, as they subtly promoted an addictive substance through behind-the-scenes manipulation
There are hundreds of chemicals in smoke, many of which are cancer-causing or carcinogenic in nature.
According to a study, weakness and major diseases associated with ageing are worsened by the development of molecular damage.
Former smokers had significantly lower mortality than current smokers, but slightly higher mortality than never-smokers.
Mark Twain once said, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world, I know because I have done it thousands of times.” This statement is true as we have all heard the words ‘I quit for a while, but started again, ‘I’m quitting tomorrow’ etc. Once it becomes habitual, smoking becomes very hard to give up.
