India committed to bring down tobacco consumption, says Dinesh Trivedi
New Delhi, Sept 16 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi has said that India is committed to bring down tobacco production as per the provisions of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Speaking at the inaugural session of first meeting of the Working Group under Articles 17-18 of the WHO-FCTC, Trivedi said that apart from focusing on health dimensions of the tobacco consumption, there is a need for concentrating on alternative livelihood for the millions of farmers and cottage industry workers who are engaged in tobacco related activities.
” Tobacco lobby has used these two stake holders to stall many serious steps to curb the tobacco menace in the country”, he said.
He outlined various initiatives of the Government of India to control tobacco consumption, which kills about nine lakh people every year in the country.
“India has enacted comprehensive legislations to curb smoking. In order to provide economically viable activity to various stake holders, the Ministry is collaborating with the Central Tobacco Research Institute and the Directorate of Agricultural Research and Extension to establish viable, sustainable, alternatives to tobacco crops,” he said
“The Ministry is also in touch with Ministries of Labour and Finance to develop skills based vocational training for bidi rollers,” he added.
He further said internationally also India is one of the pioneers in signing the FCTC and containing sustained collaboration with the WHO and other international organizations. (ANI)
Related posts:
- Dinesh Trivedi moots the idea of electronic health card
- Tamil Nadu village body bans tobacco consumption
- Increasing taxes may help reduce tobacco use
- Chandigarh youngsters spearhead anti-tobacco campaign
- A drive to make Amritsar a “Drugs and Tobacco” free city
- By 2015, 2 million people would die annually from tobacco-induced cancers
- China to ban tobacco promotion by early 2011
- Tobacco smoke linked to behavioural problems in kids
- Exposure to lead, tobacco smoke ups ADHD risk
- Australia committed to bring perpetrators of attacks on Indian nationals to justice, says Smith
- Tobacco use ‘worsens outcomes in patients with HPV-positive head, neck cancer’
- Even low alcohol consumption is bad for health
- Now, tobacco to clean up environmental toxin
- Passive tobacco smoke exposure ‘can lead to nicotine dependence’
- Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke linked to liver disease
This is a very pleasant action taken by the health department of India.
Such actions are really based on the welfare of the people even this has to be forced on them. But at the end this bears good results and every notices them.
now people need to be educated more about this along woth strict implication of laws against smoking.