Tobacco Control Cell & Cessation Centers to be set up in 12 districts of state: Vini Mahajan
Author(s): City Air NewsDeputy Commissisoners being honoured for very good compliance of COTPA 2003 in their respective districts in Punjab. Chandigarh, February 3, 2014: Improve inter departmental co-ordination for effective implementationof...
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Deputy Commissisoners being honoured for very good compliance of COTPA 2003 in their respective districts in Punjab.
Chandigarh, February 3, 2014: Improve inter departmental co-ordination for effective implementation
of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) in the state.
Vini Mahajan, Principal Secretary, Departments of Health & Family Welfare and Medical Education Punjab said this while presiding over State Level Co-ordination Committee meeting for effective implementation of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003. She said that district tobacco control cell and district cessation center is being established in Bathinda this year under
National Tobacco Control Program and in next 3 years similar activities will be undertaken in12 districts.
She said that 17 districts in the state are declared Tobacco Smoke free and the department is determined to make entire Punjab Tobacco Smoke Free in the next few months. She said that 3-4 of the top 5 cancers in most cancer registries are caused by tobacco, which can also lead to many other non-communicable diseases. She further added that by the year 2030, the developing world will account for 70% of the estimated 10 million deaths caused by Tobacco and become the focus of the Global Tobacco Control Movement.
She said that in Punjab about 24 lakh persons above the age of 15 years are tobacco users, out of which one third of them that is about 8 lakh are under threat that they will die of diseases related to
tobacco use.
Hussan Lal secretary Health-cum- Managing Director, National Health Mission, added that Chewable tobacco has already been banned in the state of Punjab since one and half years.
On this occasion Varun Roojam, DC Jalandhar and Amit Dhaka, DC Mansa were honoured for very good compliance of COTPA 2003 in their respective districts.
Prominent others who attended the meeting included Dr. Karanjit Singh, Director Health & Family Welfare Punjab, Dr Rakesh K Gupta, state Program Officer, Tobacco Control Cell, Punjab and representatives of Departments of Finance, Factories, Transport, Law, Public Relations and Local Bodies and Deputy Commissioners of district Jalandhar & Mansa.// punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news, world news,
