Times of India- Fashionable Puffs: Smoking rising among women as "sign of success"

In the Image Scrimmage 
in India, it's women who 
are losing to the Tobacco 
companies as their smoking 
rates climb. The Industry
touts it as part of hip fashion.
Unfortunately, this 40's
marketing practice is working.
Report by Marmala Gupta
Times of India-Fashionable Puffs: Smoking is rising among women because cigarettes are being marketed as signs of success

Indian PM in favor of larger graphic warnings on tobacco products

There's a tobacco war 
brewing in India. India's
Prime Minister Narendra 
Modi has called for larger
graphic warnings on tobacco 
products while challenging 
the members of the 
parliamentary panel of 
senior MPs who have conflicts
of interest to be removed. 
Yesterday's post that featured
a Times of India article about 
MPs who deny smoking's health
risks as well as endorsing the
use of tobacco. The PM is
not going to take this stuff.
TimesofIndia.com: PM in favour of larger pictorial warnings on tobacco products

Times of India: Another BJP MP defends tobacco; says no proof smoking causes cancer

C'mon India. We thought 
you had already admitted 
the obvious. Now members
of your Parliament are 
sounding like the most
ignorant of American 
politicians. Hemming and 
hawing about whether 
tobacco is dangerous when 
Russia, China, America and 
countless other countries 
have already concluded this 
and are onto the next step in 
the fight makes your leaders
appear buried in the deep
pockets of the Tobacco Industry...
Can you say "corruption?"
TimesofIndia: Another BJP MP defends tobacco says no proof smoking causes cancer

Times of India: E cigarettes the next big smoking poison

The planet is catching on to 
the problems of e cigarettes, 
which are numerous as they 
emerge like a hydra's heads. 
Today, the Times of India published 
the article accessible in the link below...
(P.S. this is RTS's 500th blog post)

Hydra by Velinov

A list of issues (the author's)

1. untested chemicals, rising 
claims of potential toxicity.

2. most still contains nicotine, 
the world's most addictive drug.

3. unregulated product in both 
compounds consumed and the 
consistency and safety of 
paraphernalia.

4. mimics actual smoking too 
closely, keeping the habit 
directly in place.

5. marketing is aimed at most 
impressionable demographic-
youth, and the rebellious, using 
candy like flavors and encouraging 
users to "proclaim your independence."

6. marketing is based on 50's-60's 
tobacco print and television ads,
revitalizing the legacy of untruth 
in advertising...and the products 
are being promoted on tv.

7. Vaping: Worst name for a verb 
denoting an action of the last one 
hundred years of English language.

Times of India: E cigarettes the next big smoking poison