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- India
UP: Newly-wed man tortures wife with cigarette burns over dowry
Bhadohi: Barely two days after getting married, a man in Bhadohi district here allegedly assaulted his wife regularly with cigarette burns over dowry demands while his father and sister also assaulted her,…
- News
Hyderabad police bust fake cigarette trade, betting racket in 2 separate cases
Hyderabad: In two separate incidents, Hyderabad police arrested two individuals involved in selling counterfeit cigarettes and running illegal betting racket. In the first case, a 28-year-old man at Mahaboob Colony was arrested…
- Lifestyle
Exposure to tobacco smoke linked with increase in heavy metals in children’s saliva
New Delhi: Exposure to tobacco smoke has been linked with an increase in the presence of non-essential heavy metals such as lead in children’s saliva, which could cause biological malfunctioning, leading to…
- Science
Gas stoves raise indoor benzene levels above secondhand smoke
New Delhi: Indoor levels of the highly flammable, carcinogenic benzene rise above those in secondhand tobacco smoke upon lighting a gas stove, common in residential living, a new Stanford-led analysis has found.…
- Tollywood News
Mahesh Babu’s smoking photo becomes talk of town
Hyderabad: Mahesh Babu has come a long way from being a chain smoker to actively opposing it. However, Mahesh Babu has shocked his fans with his latest poster for ‘SSMB28’. The poster…
- Delhi
7-year-old boy’s cheek burnt with cigarette in Delhi
New Delhi: A seven-year-old boy’s cheek was burnt with a cigarette by his aunt’s daughter in South Delhi, said an official on Friday. The official said that the parents of the child…
- Pakistan
93 per cent of Pakistanis stand for ban on cigarette sale: Survey
Islamabad: The findings of a study have shown that 93 percent of Pakistanis agreed that the sale of cigarettes should be banned. A Gallup and Gilani Pakistan survey reported that a nationally…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory director’s wife passes away
Hyderabad: Rafat Jahan Begum, wife of Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory director Khader Alam Khan passed away on December 22, 2022. She was the daughter-in-law of the late Nawab Shah Alam Khan who…
- Health
Nicotine dose in one cigarette blocks estrogen production in women’s brains: Study
Vienna: The amount of nicotine in one cigarette inhibits women’s brains from producing estrogen. This may explain a variety of behavioural differences in smokers, including the reason why women have a higher…
- Health
Study shows how menthol cigarette bans encourage smokers to quit
Ohio : According to a recent study, the 2020 European menthol cigarette ban increased the likelihood that menthol smokers will give up smoking. This finding supports earlier Canadian research on the beneficial…
