Tobacco Eradication Program

Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle

Why Tobacco Public Health Priority

• Tobacco is truly a global problem.• Tobacco is second major cause of death in world.• It is responsible for 5 million deaths worldwide due

to tobacco related illness.• If the present trends continue,number of deaths

could rise to 10 Millions by the year 2030.• According to WHO, by the year 2020, tobacco will

become leading cause of death.• 70% of these deaths occur in developing nations.• Eighty five percent of all tobacco is used in South

east Asia

Why Tobacco Public Health Priority • Tobacco kills 1 million Indians in a year. This figure

represents more deaths than from AIDS, Alcohol, Car Accidents, Murders, Suicides, Drugs and Fire combined.

• In India around 60% men and 3% women smoke where as 51% men and 30 % women are in the habit of chewing tobacco.

• In India alone, it is responsible for one in every four deaths.

• Around 2700 Indians die daily due to tobacco use.• India is third largest producer of tobacco after

China and USA and eighty percent of its production is consumed in the country itself.

Why Tobacco Public Health Priority

• Every day more than 3000 young people become regular smokers, that are more than one million kids per year.

• Half the people that smoke today-that is about 650 million people-will eventually be killed by tobacco

• Around 4000 chemicals and 400 other toxins are present in a cigarette smoke.

• People who start smoking in their teens as more than 70% do) and continue for two decades or more will die 20-25 years earlier than those who never light up.

• Every eight seconds someone dies of tobacco use.

Customer Requirements

TOBACCO USE

CHEWING SMOKING

SMOKERS BODY

90% oral cancers are due to Tobacco Chewing.

India is called “home of oral cancer”.

Health & Tobacco…

A study conducted by National Institute of Ageing, Maryland US states that 15% tobacco users become impotent by the age of FORTY.

Cigarette & Other Tobacco Products Act- 2003

• Prohibition of smoking in public places. • Prohibition of advertisement of cigarette

& other tobacco products.• Prohibition of sale of tobacco to persons

below eighteen years.• Sale of tobacco within 100 yards of any

educational institute.• Specific warnings including a pictorial

depiction of skull & cross bones

Our Strengths

POLICE POLICE ADM.ADM. NGO’sNGO’s

CIVIL CIVIL ADM.ADM.

Mission Implementation

Supply Reduction* Strict

implementation of the act.

• To remove illegally encroached vends selling tobacco.

Demand Reduction• Awareness launch in

Schools, Colleges, & educational institutes.

• Exhibitions & other extension programs for rural & urban population.

• Printing & publishing relevant material.

• Setting tobacco clinics.• Training of law

enforcement agencies & other volunteers.