Tobacco use is the world's single greatest preventable cause of death according to the WHO. Nearly 267 million adults in India, approximately 29% of all adults, use tobacco according to a 2016-17 survey. Tobacco can be consumed in various forms like cigarettes and smokeless forms. The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act of 2003 was enacted in India to discourage tobacco consumption and the National Tobacco Control Programme was launched in 2007 with the aims of creating awareness of tobacco's harms and reducing tobacco production and supply.

1. TOBACCO CESSATION

2. Tobacco
• Dried processed leaves obtained from the plant
Nicotiana tabacum
• Tobacco contains the highly addictive stimulant
alkaloid nicotine.
• In 2008, the World Health Organization named
tobacco use as the world's single greatest preventable
cause of death

3. EPIDEMIOLOGY
Nearly 267 million adults (15 years and above) in India (29%
of all adults) are users of tobacco, according to the Global
Adult Tobacco Survey India, 2016-17.

4. Forms of Tobacco
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TOBACCO USERS

5. Composition of Tobacco

6. Composition of Tobacco

8. Cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol use may act in
synergy to cause increased cognitive decline.

12. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US) Office on Smoking and Health. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); 2014.
Tobacco and Oral cancer

14. Oral
leukoplakia
Oral submucous
fibrosis
Oral sq. cell
carcinoma

15. Smoking ruins your life, Her life And their lives

16. Key measures to reduce the demand for tobacco
1. Pictorial health warnings
2. Quitting tobacco advertising
3. Taxes

17. WHO framework convention on tobacco control( FCTC)
• In 2007, WHO introduced MPOWER.The 6 MPOWER measures are:
• Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies
• Protect people from tobacco use
• Offer help to quit tobacco use
• Warn about the dangers of tobacco
• Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
• Raise taxes on tobacco.

19. Tobacco Control Law
• Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India enacted
a comprehensive legislation, namely the Cigarettes and
Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 (COTPA 2003) to
discourage the consumption of tobacco products in order
to protect the masses from the health hazards.

20. NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMME (NTCP)
Government of India launched the National Tobacco Control
Programme (NTCP) in the year 2007-08 with the aim to
1.Create awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco
consumption,
2.Reduce the production and supply of tobacco products,

22. References
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
(US) Office on Smoking and Health. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (US); 2014.
• Balram rai et al “Tobacco use among Indian states: Key findings from
the latest demographic health survey 2019–2020” Tob. Prev.
Cessation 2021;7(March):19
• Gauravi A. Mishra et al “An overview of the tobacco problem in India”
Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol. 2012 Jul-Sep; 33(3): 139–145.

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