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An overview of the tobacco problem in India
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This is a review paper comprehensively encompassing the different aspects of tobacco control with particular reference to the Indian scenario. The information on prevalent tobacco habits in India, health hazards and environmental hazards due to tobacco use, passive smoking and its impact, economics of tobacco, legislation to control tobacco in India, the tobacco cessation services and the way ahead for effective tobacco control are discussed. Tobacco is a leading preventable cause of death, killing nearly six million people worldwide each year. Reversing this entirely preventable manmade epidemic should be our top priority. This global tobacco epidemic kills more people than tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. This epidemic can be resolved by becoming aware of the devastating effects of tobacco, learning about the proven effective tobacco control measures, national programmes and legislation prevailing in the home country and then engaging completely to halt the epidemic to move toward a tobacco-free world. India is the second largest consumer of tobacco globally, and accounts for approximately one-sixth of the world′s tobacco-related deaths. The tobacco problem in India is peculiar, with consumption of variety of smokeless and smoking forms. Understanding the tobacco problem in India, focusing more efforts on what works and investigating the impact of sociocultural diversity and cost-effectiveness of various modalities of tobacco control should be our priority.
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Pakistan, Panama, and India have implemented a large number of tobacco control policies over the past decade and have had marked declines in the prevalence of daily smoking since 2005, compared with decreases recorded between 1990 and 2005.
“Pakistan, Panama, and India stand out as three countries that have implemented a large number of tobacco control policies over the past decade and have had marked declines in the prevalence of daily smoking since 2005, compared with decreases recorded between 1990 and 2005.52, 53, 54”
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The ‘Legislation and Enforcement’ section describes several tobacco-control measures adopted in India, including the 2003 COTPA law and a nationwide public-smoking prohibition implemented in 2008. The paper does not establish a marked decline in daily-smoking prevalence since 2005 or compare it with 1990–2005; its Introduction gives a 2009–10 smoking estimate, not a trend. It does not address Pakistan or Panama, though the sentence has other citations for those countries. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mishra, G. A., Pimple, S. A., & Shastri, S. S.
- Affiliations
- Tata Memorial Hospital (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Mishra, Gauravi A
- Venue
- Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology
- Publisher
- Georg Thieme Verlag KG
- Published
- 2012-07
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 03
- Pages
- 139-145
- ISSN
- 0971-5851 (ISSN-L)
- 0975-2129
- PMC
- PMC3523470
- OpenAlex
- W2081934992
- Cited by
- 221
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 2.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Keywords
- tobacco control, tobacco use, India, passive smoking, smoking-related mortality, smokeless tobacco, smoking cessation services, tobacco control legislation, tobacco economics, sociocultural diversity, cost-effectiveness
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