By Anastasia Tomazhenkova: India's health minister Anbumani Ramadoss resumed the debates about smoking, he called on the country's biggest movie stars to stop smoking on screen.

The more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely they are to try to quit smoking and be successful - even without buying the products, finds a new Cornell study.

Mumbai is joining cities around the world to mark "World No Tobacco Day" on Thursday, in tune with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) call to raise awareness about the ill-effects of smoking and tobacco consumption.