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AIIMS docs trash tobacco report
Rubbish Panel Views On Cancer Deaths
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Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), which runs one of the busiest cancer centres in the country,
rubbished the report of a parliamentary panel chief who said there was no Indian study to prove that the use of tobacco is
linked to cancer. They said that tobacco use in any form is a well-established cause of cancers in mouth, food pipe and
lungs.Dr P K Julka, head of the clinical oncology department at AIIMS, said lung cancer was rare among women till about a
decade ago, but thanks to smoking, the incidence of the disease had ris en sharply.
“In Delhi, lung cancer is the sixth most common cancer among women,“ he added. He said it was imperative to take urgent
steps to limit tobacco use in order to rein in the increasing cancer cases.The controversial comment was made by BJP MP
Dilip Gandhi.
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Meanwhile, the Centre's decision to hold off increasing the size of pictorial
warnings on cigarette packets has not gone down well with cancer
specialists.
The Centre had planned to introduce bigger warnings on cigarette packets
-from 40% of the packet's front to 85% of the entire surface -from
Wednesday .
But the decision was postponed on the suggestion of the Gandhi-led
parliamentary committee , which cited the “adverse impact“ the move
would have on workers in the tobacco industry .
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