1Assistant Professor, (Faculty of law), Department of Community Medicine, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
2Associate Professor (Medical Sociology), Department of Community Medicine, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
3Associate Professor, (Political Sciences), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
4Associate Professor (Faculty of law), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
5Assistant Professor (Biostatistics), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
*Corresponding author: Ankur Gupta Assistant Professor, (Faculty of law), Sardar Patel Subharti Law College, Meerut, UP
Online published on 4 March, 2017.
Tobacco use is one of the important preventable causes of death and a leading public health problem all over the world. Majority of the morbidity and mortality could be attributed to tobacco use. Annually about five to six million deaths are attributed to tobacco use as a risk factor. In India about one million deaths each year and about 2200 deaths each day are attributed to tobacco use as a risk factor. There are about 275 million tobacco users in India which accounts for about 1/3rd (34.6%) of Indian population. Various tobacco control measures including policy making, increasing taxes, formulation of tobacco control laws, health education, medical interventions etc are available. There is an urgent need to strengthen the research in the country to deal with the problem of tobacco control.
Tobacco use, Health effects, Tobacco control Programme, legislation
