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 CHEWING TOBACCO USE SMOKING

SMOKERS BODY v 90% oral cancers are due to Tobacco Chewing. v 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 CIVIL ADM. POLICE ADM. NGO’s

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.