cigarette smokers in india Trends bidi and smoking in from 1998 to 2015, by age, gender and education Jump in number of Indian

Recently, computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging have emerged as promising screening tools

As Gary Cross and Robert Proctor explain, the shift from air-cured to flue-cured tobacco was something like the shift from opium to heroin or from eating to injecting drugs by means of a hypodermic needle: a new form of consumption based on a new and intensified form of packaged delivery. It was curiously in being made more mild that tobacco became lethal

"If you strip back the decoration, gloss and misleading elements of tobacco packaging, you are left with little more than a box of deadly addictive products that kills approximately six million people a year and harms the health of many more

I speak as someone who used to smoke for England