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A woman lights a cigarette from a burning photograph of Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei; an ad for Phillip Morris cigarettes. (Source: X@@OOCprogresismo2/Wikimedia Commons)

The long, uneasy history of women, cigarettes, and freedom

January 14, 2026 7:47 pm

Once engineered as a symbol of women’s liberation, the cigarette has travelled a long road from corporate manipulation to cinematic cliché, and now, to acts of rebellion under Iran’s authoritarian rule.

Pulmonologist explains: "Zero sleep + smoking cigarette = ...."

September 21, 2025 3:32 pm

It may feel like smoking helps you stay awake after a sleepless night, but that false alertness comes from a surge of adrenaline, which triggers a racing pulse, inflammation, and nasty jitters

How smoking may affect your voice: Doctors say 'Even one cigarette can...'

September 17, 2025 3:59 pm

E-cigarettes or vapes are no better alternative in this context.

Non-smokers can get lung cancer as well — that’s the most important message of a recent study

August 08, 2025 1:03 pm

It puts the focus on curbing air pollution and using newly-developed AI tools to screen the disease

Here’s another reason why you should stop smoking

July 08, 2024 6:37 pm

Dr Vinutha G, senior consultant gynecologist and obstetrics at Athreya Super Speciality Hospital, says, “Cigarette smoke contains numerous harmful chemicals that can influence the onset of premature menopause.

In Downtown New York, ‘Cigfluencers’ light up a new kind of cigarette

August 25, 2023 12:14 pm

The cigarettes were Hestias, a tobacco brand that dates to the early 2010s but has only recently begun appearing between the fingers of smokers with the recent arrival of a new line of cigarettes.

Tobacco warnings on OTT shows: Analogue rules in a digital age

August 25, 2023 12:29 pm

New, fast-evolving, technology-driven business models such as OTT platforms must be governed through a light touch approach that enables their growth and innovation.

Smoking not only affects the lungs, it has an impact on spine health too

May 04, 2023 12:22 pm

We should always sit straight taking support from backrest and not sit or stand continuously at one place for more than an hour

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A series of 24-hour marathons to tackle cigarette butt pollution

May 31, 2022 10:31 pm

Cigarette butts are the most littered non-biodegradable litter, suggest studies. Nirit Datta’s initiative 'Butt Rush' hopes to tackle the menace through a series of marathons.

Cigarette butts caused 4,187 fires in Telangana in 2020, prompted 19,470 alerts to forest dept

April 14, 2021 5:59 pm

Unextinguished cigarettes and beedis, and deliberate setting of fires by honey collectors and beedi leaf cultivators have damaged thousands of hectares of forests.