#GRAVITAS| The proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never touched a cigarette or smoked tobacco in their entire lives is increasing as per the World Health Organization’s cancer agency. In fact, lung cancer in people who have never smoked is now estimated to be the fifth highest cause of cancer deaths worldwide. What explains this? Watch this video to find out more.

More and more non-smokers diagnosed with lung cancer: Study

As per the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 1.3 billion people smoke tobacco around the world. The habit is widely frowned upon and in many places around the globe smoking in public is banned.

'If looks could kill': Hong Kong asks citizens to 'stare' at people smoking in public

Canada has come out with a regulation that would soon require health warnings to be printed on individual cigarettes, making it the first country to implement such kind of initiative as it aims to reduce tobacco usage to less than 5 per cent by 2035.

Canada becomes first country to put health warnings on individual cigarettes

It is only a recent development that weed has been made legal in different parts of the world. Habitual users and marijuana connoisseurs have long claimed that the recreational drug is far less harmful than the tobacco products you can obtain easily.

Smoking weed is more harmful to your lungs than smoking cigarettes, finds study

A recent study found children are more likely to suffer from asthma if their parents inhaled secondhand tobacco smoke in their childhood or were active smokers themselves.

Children, grandchildren of parents exposed to secondhand smoke more likely to get asthma: Study

A newly published research has revealed how air pollution can cause lung cancer in individuals who have never smoked in their lives. The findings of the research could help the medical industry in preventing and treating tumours by rewriting our understanding of them.

Air pollution activates dormant cancer genes in non-smokers, reveals a breakthrough study

The US government is planning to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars which have taken a disproportionate toll on smokers and other minorities. The FDA says that the proposal would reduce disease and death by helping smokers quit and stopping young people from starting

US plans to ban Methanol cigarettes to reduce disease and death

As the world battles coronavirus, there is another danger that hides in shadows, ready to attack the human body — smoking. New research has found almost eight million people died due to smoking in 2019, and the number has only increased since then, in the pandemic years.

Smokers increased to 1.1 billion; youngsters affected worst: Study

Countering previous claims of young being less susceptible to catching COVID-19, a new study has posited that one in three young adults are now at severe risk of contracting the virus.

Young smokers twice as likely to develop severe COVID-19 symptoms as non-smokers

The study found that 14.2% of the people in Andhra smoke, compared to India's national average at 10.7%.

Andhra has highest number of smokers in south India, tobacco study finds

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