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WHO's Second Global Hypertension Report: 1.4 Billion Affected, Few Achieve Control
25 Sep 2025 15:55 GMT
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its second … countries report that all WHO-recommended hypertension medicines are … risk factors such as alcohol, tobacco use, physical inactivity, salt … has effectively incorporated the WHO’s HEARTS technical package …
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Many Retailers Yet To Implement Tobacco Retail Display Ban: MCTC
25 Sep 2025 17:01 GMT
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The Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control (MCTC) expressed concern … any enforcement of any tobacco control regulation comes up.” … some tobacco products in an enclosed cabinet, leaving other cigarette products … October 1.
“For retailers who have not yet been …
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Illicit tobacco seized from eight local businesses in North Lanarkshire
25 Sep 2025 16:02 GMT
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The illicit tobacco products were concealed and … with the assistance of tobacco detection dogs.
Download the … chain involved.
“Illegal cigarettes and tobacco products cause significant health … to identify the businesses who are selling these products …
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Rurality, drive time to care impact tobacco treatment in COPD
25 Sep 2025 16:19 GMT
… for a prescription of tobacco dependence treatment (TDT) … resources to access evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment,” Baldomero said … among all veterans with COPD who smoke,” Baldomero told Healio … and the only trained tobacco treatment specialist within …
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Man pressed lit cigarette onto his mum's forehead and set fire to her flat
25 Sep 2025 14:02 GMT
… was. He was smoking a cigarette which may have come from … refused to give her a cigarette. He then pressed his own … lit cigarette onto her forehead for about … she is the only person who has stood by him yet …
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Tobacco, unhealthy diet account for 42% cancer deaths: The Lancet Report
25 Sep 2025 14:19 GMT
… medical journal, has shown tobacco, unhealthy diet, and high … said. Men who drink alcohol and smoke tobacco are susceptible to … modifiable risk factors (mostly tobacco, unhealthy diet, high alcohol … leading risk factors were tobacco, unsafe sex, unhealthy diet …
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‘Carelessly discarded cigarette’ causes village park fire
25 Sep 2025 15:08 GMT
A dropped cigarette butt has caused a fire … determined as a carelessly discarded cigarette.
“We would like to remind … being investigated by Lincolnshire Police who have appealed for help from …
Officers are appealing for anyone who might have any information as …
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Inmate who said he was raped held in ‘inhumane conditions’
25 Sep 2025 16:42 GMT
A man in police custody was subjected to “inhumane and humiliating treatment and punishment”, ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Thursday.
In her capacity as head of the national mechanism to prevent torture and other forms of harsh, inhumane and …
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Dont back down on Oct 1 cigarette display ban, says MCTC
25 Sep 2025 12:12 GMT
… JAYA: The Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control (MCTC) has urged … the display ban for tobacco and vape products scheduled … rounds when enforcement of any tobacco control regulation comes up,” … MCTC also suggested that retailers who had yet to install closed …
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The Alcohol Industry’s Battle with the World Health Organization Over Health Impacts
24 Sep 2025 23:04 GMT
… of alcohol consumption. The World Health Organization (WHO), a leading authority on … the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Such a framework … argued that alcohol, unlike tobacco, is a legal product … past collaborations in the tobacco and food sectors.
For …