As we strive to combat the scourge of tobacco, it is essential to acknowledge the difficulty in unlearning harmful behaviours once they take root. This prevention initiatives aimed at equipping our youth with the knowledge and resilience needed to resist the allure of tobaccoo.
E-cigarettes have fewer toxins than regular cigarettes but still contain a mixture of harmful chemicals and raise the risk of respiratory diseases.
E-cigarettes have long been embraced as a less harmful way to satisfy smokers' nicotine addiction, but all-time high youth vaping in the country has prompted calls for action to stem their use, the Xinhua news agency reported.
In yet another serious health alert on e-cigarette use, researchers have documented first-ever case of a new form of damage from vaping products in a youth which is similar to "popcorn lung," a condition seen in workers exposed to food flavouring fumes in microwave popcorn factories.
The government has issued an Ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such "alternative" smoking devices a cognisable offence attracting jail term and fine.
The government on Wednesday banned production, import and sale of e-cigarettes and similar products, citing health risk to people, especially youth.
Taking up a proposal from the Health Ministry, the Union cabinet may, in its meeting on Wednesday, approve an ordinance to ban manufacturing and sale of e-cigarettes.
The research also showed that almost 90 percent of adult smokers smoked their first cigarette by the time they were 18
New Delhi: Terms like 'vape', 'culture', 'photobomb', 'overshare' and 'heart emoji' were significant throughout the past 12 months and have been named top words of 2014 by various dictionaries and language monitoring groups.While Oxford Dictionaries
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