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Highlights of 8 October 2025 Current Affairs
- WHO’s Global Report (2000–2024) shows global adult tobacco use dropped from 26.2% in 2010 to 19.5% in 2024, marking major health progress.
- Over 100 million people worldwide now use e-cigarettes, showing a worrying global shift from traditional tobacco to alternative nicotine products.
- India has 243.48 million tobacco users in 2024 but achieved a 43% reduction since 2010, surpassing WHO’s 30% reduction target for 2025.
- India’s key anti-tobacco laws include COTPA 2003, which bans smoking in public and selling tobacco to minors or near schools.
- Typhoon Matmo struck China’s Yunnan and Guangdong provinces, causing heavy rain, flooding, crop loss, transport disruption, and power outages.
- The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2025 went to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries on immune tolerance and Treg cells.
- Their research on the FOXP3 gene revealed how mutations lead to autoimmune diseases and offered insights for cancer and transplant therapies.
- Russia’s recent missile strikes on Kharkiv and Poltava targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, raising nuclear safety concerns near the Zaporizhzhia plant.
- India recorded its best-ever performance at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships with 22 medals, including 6 golds, while also hosting the event.
- UNESCO appointed its first Arab Director-General, reflecting growing leadership diversity and commitment to global cooperation in education, science, and culture.
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