AFRICA: SUCCESS AGAINST THE ODDS More than 100 people, mostly from Africa, joined by colleagues from the USA and Europe, gathered near Johannesburg in the first week of February for an important African tobacco control conference. This was the latest in the Africa Tobacco Situation Analysis (ATSA) series of meetings to share experience, learn from each other and refresh their energies for the c...

the potential of tobacco waste as a viable source of medicinally important flavonoids like rutin has been investigated. three flavonoids, apigenin, quercetin and rutin, have been isolated from waste tobacco leaves, and their identities have been confirmed by uv-visible, 1h-nmr and 13c-nmr spectroscopy. by using analytical hplc, the amount of rutin present in the tobacco leaves, before and after...

Increasingly, public policymakers have turned to taxing tobacco products as a method of raising revenue and saving lives. Last year, the American Heart Association (AHA), American Cancer Society, and American Lung Association, united as the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, embarked on what at the time appeared to be a long-shot public policy initiativeseeking to raise the cigarette tax by as muc...

Background: Tobacco use is a major cause of preventable death and disease in India. A nationally representative case-control study of smoking in India (2008) revealed that only 2% of smokers had spontaneously quit. This study was undertaken to assess tobacco quit rates among the youth in an urban health center and to determine barriers in quitting tobacco use. Methods: This cross sectional stud...

three bacteria from a tobacco industry effluent and one from a sewage sample were isolated on a medium comprising of 1% tobacco powder as sole source of nutrients. bacteria isolated from the industrial waste water were identified as bacillus cereus, b. alvei and b. circulans. while, lactobacillus sp. was isolated from the sewage sample. the bacteria were optimized for various growth conditions ...

transformation of plants using agrabacterium rhizogenes may affect secondary metabolite production as well as morphological changes. in this study, t-dna from ri plasmid in a. rhizogenes carrying pri15834-prt35s-gus was introduced into tobacco leaf segments to initiate development of transformed hairy roots. plant regeneration from transgenic roots used ms medium, and plants regenerated fro...