India's tobacco control suffers from a glaring contradiction: massive tax revenues overshadow negligible cessation funding.
Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn’t unheard ...
Wrapped inside a betel leaf and placed in the side of the mouth, tobacco has been chewed for centuries in India. But it is only in the last decade that tobacco companies have started selling ...
India’s tobacco exports have doubled over the past four years in dollar terms on rising global demand and prices as production takes a hit in countries such as Brazil and Zimbabwe. India’s ...
We rank second in tobacco-related deaths worldwide; with nearly 14 lakh annual deaths while alcohol is the most common psychoactive substance used by Indians. The Indian Premier League (IPL ...
Medicago uses Nicotiana benthamiana, a close relative of the tobacco plant, to manufacture virus-like particles that mimic SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein but don’t cause infection or disease. The ...