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| Governor inaugurates State Level Anti-Tobacco Workshop | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar May 29: The Governor, N. N. Vohra, today called for adopting a missionary approach to generate greater awareness among people against adverse affects of tobacco consumption by involving all the stakeholders and society at large to progressively achieve the desired results.
The Governor was inaugurating a one-day “State Level Advocacy Workshop for Sensitizing Stakeholders on Tobacco Control Laws and Measures”, organized by the J&K Voluntary Health Association, in collaboration with the Divisional Administration, Kashmir, and the Drug and Food Control Organization, at SKICC, here.
The Governor emphasized that along with effective implementation of the anti-tobacco laws, greater focus must be laid on preventive aspects of this menace followed by curative efforts. In this context, the Governor observed that similar workshops and interactions are required to be organized at the district and sub-divisional levels to engender increasing awareness to prevent consumption of tobacco in any form. He added that it would be beneficial to organize lectures by experts and faculty members in schools, colleges and other educational institutions.
Tracing the possible beginning of tobacco use and smoking in India, the Governor observed that active or passive smoking and use of tobacco in any form is a serious health hazard, adding that all of us need to become more pro-active for effectively dealing with this problem by organizing a community initiative.
The Governor lauded the J&K Voluntary Health Association, the Kashmir Divisional Administration and all those who collaborated in organizing this Workshop on a highly relevant subject, and sincerely hoped that the deliberations during the technical sessions would go a long way in generating awareness on all related aspects to deal with the harmful affects of tobacco use.
M. Y. Tarigami, MLA spoke about the role which the legislators can play in tobacco control.
Tariq Qureshi, eye specialist, stressed that smoking leads to eye ailments also besides, affecting other systems.
Dr. H. A. Durrani, Gastroenterologist, expressed his views on the topic, “smoking tobacco products leads to Gastroenterological diseases along with causing other ailments”.
Praveen Sinha from the Voluntary Health Association of India, New Delhi, gave an over view of tobacco control measures being taken at the national level.
The chairman, J&K Voluntary Health Association, G. Q. Allaqaband, spoke on the theme of health burden of cigarette smoking and other tobacco products in the State. He expressed his gratitude to the Governor for endorsing their representation to the Government for increasing the tax rate on cigarettes and other tobacco products to discourage their use, and also thanked the Government for accepting this request.
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