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| Still has highest number of smokers: IIPS Report | | 'J&K again in limelight but not for excellency' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 21: The Jammu and Kashmir state has highest number of cigarette smokers in India. The shocking revelation has been made in Global Adult Tobacco Survey conducted by International Institute of Population Science in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The report also reveals that, India, with a population of 1.2 billion, currently has around 275 million tobacco users.
The report also mentions that approximately, 900,000 people die annually in India due to smoking as of 2009 adding that the death toll may clock up to 1.5 million a year by 2020 if users are not persuaded to kick the habit. Reacting to survey report, Dr. Gautam Sharma, Dental Surgeon at University of Jammu who is also General Secretary of Indian Dental association has stressed the need to make "Tobacco Free India" by year 2020.
Sharma said that smoking causes many types of cancers, heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pneumonia, hip fractures, and cataract. He added, "Pregnant smoker is at higher risk of having preterm baby with low weight and risk of death from sudden infant death syndrome while chewing tobacco causes cancer particularly of mouth and throat."
He said that a dentist is first point of contact for person consuming tobacco as they come for cleaning of teeth as soon as tobacco stains develop on their teeth.
He further added that smoking is the leading cause of premature and preventable deaths in India.
Dr. Gautam said that he is actively involved in the Indian Dental Association (IDA) Tobacco Intervention Initiative (TII) campaign which is a professionally led programme to eradicate tobacco addiction while striving for a `tobacco free India' and thus improving the oral health of Indians by the year 2020.
TII aims to establish a broad alliance of key influencers and policymakers from research, education, clinical-practice, public health, government and industry, partnering in a common goal to effect fundamental change in health systems and individual behaviour to achieve the 2020 goal.
He also mentioned that various organizations and universities in the United Kingdom are working to eradicate the menace of Tobacco from their country. They are spending millions of Pounds on tobacco control campaigns research and are getting good results from them. He also mentioned of Prof. Ann McNeill Professor of Tobacco Addiction in the National Addiction Centre and is also Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS) an international consortium of 13 universities funded by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. She has held a variety of academic and public sector posts focusing largely on tobacco control research. Ann has an established international reputation, receiving a World Health Organisation World No Tobacco Day award for contributions to tobacco control in 1998. She has published more than 250 academic papers book chapters, reports and opinion pieces on the subject and her research ranges across prevention, cessation, harm reduction and local, national and international policy. Smoke Free is also an organisation in the U.K. engaged in a campaign against tobacco. |
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