2. Why World No Tobacco Day is
observed?
1) On 31st May every year, the world observes World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) that is
promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO).
2) The objective of observing World No Tobacco Day is to reduce tobacco consumption
which can lead to deadly diseases like cancer and early death
3) World No Tobacco Day primarily focuses on encouraging users to refrain from tobacco
consumption and its related products for a period of at least 24 hours.
4) No Tobacco Day also aims to keep a watch on companies that sell cigarettes and other
tobacco products through striking advertisements which influence people to consume
there product . To propel it’s cause and appeal globally.
4. Tobacco consumption in India
1) 43% of rural and 28% of urban Indian males aged 10 years and
above consume tobacco and tobacco- containing products.
2) 11% of rural and 5% of urban Indian females aged 10 years and
above use tobacco and tobacco- containing products.
3) According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) there
are 200 million active tobacco users in India.
4) Tobacco kills 800,000 people and 12 million become ill every year in
India due to its consumption.
5. Various Issues on Tobacco
• 1) In September 2011, a national survey released by the Health Ministry estimated that more
than 275 million people in India use tobacco- If combined, India’s tobacco users could make the
fourth largest country by themselves.
• 2) More than 1 million Indians are estimated to die annually simply from smoking tobacco.
• 3) Budget 2012 provided a unique opportunity the revise the tax policy on tobacco, increase
government revenues and demonstrate government’s efforts to protect citizen’s health.
• 4) A study coordinated by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in 2010
demonstrated that the health impact of a 52.8% increase in Bidi price would be 4.6 million
averted premature deaths in current smokers and generates Rs. 36.9 billion (or $ 0.8 billion) for
the government.
6. • 5) An increase of cigarette prices by 158% would advert an additional 1.8 million premature
deaths in current smokers and generate Rs. 146.3 billion (or $ 3.1 billion).
• 6) Another 2011 paper estimated that nearly 15 million people are pushed into poverty every
year In India due to tobacco use and stated the controlling tobacco use would not only improve
public health but also reduce poverty in India Economic costs of tobacco use amounted to $ 1.7
billion annually.
• 7) The World Bank recommends 70-80% of the retail price as tobacco tax. Cigarettes are taxed at
35-50% of their retail price, Bidis next to negligible, and packaged chewing forms (very few
companies are registered though thousands of brands exist) that started getting taxed only from
2008 are taxed around 15% of their retail price.
• 8) According to WHO tobacco, smoke and smokeless could kill over 1 billion people in the 21st
century.
7. • 9) India has 285 million smokers and about 138 million don’t know that smoking can cause
stroke (cerebrovascular accident). As a many 92 million aren’t aware that tobacco causes heart
disease. According to a report released by the World Heart Federation (WHF) on Friday, half of all
Chinese smokers and one- third if Indian smokers are unaware of the risks tobacco pose to the
heart.
• 10) According to WHF, cardiovascular disease (CVD) kills 17.3 million people every year. Around
80% of these deaths occur in low and middle- income countries like India, which are increasingly
being targeted by the tobacco industry.
• 11) According to WHO’s Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Report, globally 12% of all deaths
among adults aged 30 years and above were due to smokeless tobacco in 2004 compared with
16% in India, Pakistan (17%) and Bangladesh (31%). Direct tobacco smoking was responsible for 5
million deaths.
• 12) According to the Global Adult Tobacco India Survey (GATS), 21% of the country’s population is
addicted to smokeless tobacco alone and another 5% smoke as well as use smokeless tobacco.
8. • 13) GATS says India spends approximately Rs. 300 billion annually in both public and private
spending on treatment of tobacco-related illness, accounting for about one- fourth of all health
spending.
• 14) Smoking is also leading cause of cancer and other chronic diseases. If that’s not enough a
recent survey revealed that tobacco use is estimated to have caused nearly 120000 death across
India in 2010, according to research carried out by the Toronto-based Centre for Global Health
Research (CGHR) in partnership with Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital.
• 15) Nearly 600,000 Indians die of cancer every year- over seven in 10 deaths (71%) takes place in
the 30-69 age group, the most productive period of a person’s life, says the report published in
the latest issue of the Lancet medical journal. The study points out that Kerala had among the
highest age standardized cancer mortality rates per 100,000 for men in the 30-69 age group
(158.5 for all cancers and 53.9 for tobacco- related cancers).
9. Top leading Companies of Tobacco.
1) Kanhayya Tobacco Company
2) M.R Tobacco
3) Sapna Enterprises
4) Sudarshan Tobacco
5) ITC Company
6) Golden Tobacco Company Ltd.
7) Sinnar Bidi Udyog Ltd.
8) VST Industries Ltd.
9) Kothari Products Ltd.
10) Ashok and Company Pan Bahar Ltd.
10. Ranking of India in Tobacco Producing in 2020 worldwide (In 1,000 metric tons)*
• India is the second-largest tobacco producer in the world.
11. TOBACCO PRODUCTION TREND OF INDIA
India is the second largest tobacco producer behind
China. The country has around 0.45 million hectares of
area under tobacco cultivation. Globally, it accounts for
9% of the total tobacco production.
India produces various types of tobacco including flue-
cured tobacco, country tobacco, burley tobacco, bidi
tobacco, rustica tobacco and chewing tobacco. The
average production for the last five years for tobacco
crops is around 800 million kg.
The major tobacco manufacturing states in India are
Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, West
Bengal, Telangana and Bihar. Out of these Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat account for around 45%,
26% and 14% of the total production of the country
respectively. Uttar Pradesh accounts for around 5% and
the rest of the state’s account for about 2-3% of the
country’s total tobacco production.
12. TOBACCO EXPORT TREND
• India is the second largest exporter of tobacco behind Brazil. It exports various types of
tobacco and tobacco products such as stripped, wholly stemmed, cigar cheroots,
smoking tobacco, homogenized, flue-cured, sun-cured, extract and essence, etc.
• Between April 2021-February 2022, India exported tobacco and tobacco products worth
US$ 838.80 million.
• In February 2022, the export of tobacco from India stood at US$ 78 million, a 12.78% rise
from the same period of 2021. Also, the month-on-month growth of exports for February
2022 was 20%.
• From November 2021 to February 2022, tobacco exports in India grew at a CAGR of
7.6%.
