The local tobacco company might wish to emulate ITC, in view of the decline in the demand for tobacco, and utilise its set up and resources for alternative products. There is an urgent need to seriously explore the viability of commercial farming for the tourist industry in order to reduce the import bill and to provide alternative income in farming communities. Under Indian Government aid, two agricultural scientists with experience in commercial vegetable farming and the food...

State employee healthcare benefits cost more than $100 million a year Victoria Wallack The state currently pays 100 percent of the health insurance premium for state employees - a benefit that costs taxpayers $7,000 a year for individual employees and as much as $13,600 a year for an employee with a family, whose spouse and children are covered at a 60 percent rate. State employee healthcare benefits cost more than $100 million a year Victoria Wallack The state currently pays 100 percent...

As the totally new concept of smoking sans any health hazards is expected to be introduced in other parts of worlds as well, LT gets talking to experts on the latest device that could change the way people smoke, and also if this could be a good substitute to the conventional cigarette whose portrayal on celluloid has been banned by the Government of India. As the totally new concept of smoking sans any health hazards is expected to be introduced in other parts of worlds as well, LT gets...

Unlike chewing tobacco or smoking, snus does not increase rates of oral or lung cancer, according to research published online this week by The Lancet medical journal. Tucked between the gum and upper lip, the moist tobacco produces a juice that can deliver a bigger dose of nicotine than a cigarette. Tobacco rolled in a tube of paper as a cigarette, as opposed to cigars, is thought to have first appeared during the Crimean War of 1853-1856 when it was introduced to British soldiers by the...

These classrooms have been teaching children about alcohol, tobacco and drug awareness for over three months, hoping to get them in a mindset to resist peer pressure. Here is some history on the program and where it has gone since 1983: -The DARE program was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles to provide students the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs and violence. Before they can teach a class, the officers perform 80 hours of special training in child development, classroom...