Taking steps to quit smoking and adopting a healthy lifestyle can go a long way in maintaining healthy hair and overall well-being
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Thus, it is urgent that stronger action be taken to implement tobacco control interventions, including raising taxes and prices on tobacco and alcohol products, as well as sustaining prevention of NCDs that would significantly contribute toward controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, he said In their joint article titled COVID-19 propelled by smoking could destroy entire nations, published by the European Respiratory Society in March 2020 , Kathryn Barnsley and Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, scientists from the University of Tasmanias Respiratory Translational Research Group write that many countries are starting to come to terms with the fact that smokers are 14 times more likely to die from COVID-19, but few countries have issued warnings to quit smoking
The GST Council last week decided to increase the cess on cigarettes, arguing that it corrected an anomaly in cigarette taxation under GST that would have otherwise cost the government Rs 5,000 crore