Government of India
NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMME
Do You Know?
- • Smoking in public places is prohibited and is a punishable offence.
- • Direct/Indirect advertisements of tobacco products including sponsorship and promotion are prohibited and is a punishable offence.
- • Sale of tobacco products to and by minors (less than 18 years of age) is prohibited and is a punishable offence.
- • Sale of tobacco products within 100 yards of Educational Institutions is prohibited and is a punishable offence.
- • It is mandatory to display the pictorial warnings on tobacco products packages.
Prohibition on Electronic-Cigarette and like devices
• The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act, 2019- • The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage and advertisement) Ordinance, 2019
- • Presentation on harmful effects of Electronic-Cigarettes and like devices
- • White Paper by Indian Council of Medical Research
What’s New
- • High resolution images as per Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2 December 2024 . The soft or printable version of the specified health warnings
- • Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2024
- • Advertisement for Consultants in NTCP, MoHFW
- • Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Rules, 2023
- • Public Notice on compliance of prohibition of e-cigarettes
- • Public Notice on Rotation of Specified Health Warning on Tobacco Products packs from 1st December, 2022
- • Image -1 as per the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2022.
- • Image -2 as per the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2022.
- • Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2022, notified vide GSR 592 (E) dated 21st July, 2022.
- • No Tobacco Pledge
- • State Fact Sheets of fourth round of Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS-4), 2019
- • National Fact Sheet of fourth round of Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS-4), 2019
- • Public Notice on Rotation of Specified Health Warning on Tobacco Products packs from 1st December, 2020
- • Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Third Amendment Rules, 2020
- • Printable version of Image-1
• Printable version of Image-2 - • Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Second Amendment Rules, 2020
Burden of Tobacco Use
Major risk factor for Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), Diabetes, Chronic Lung Disease, stroke, infertility, blindness, Tuberculosis (TB), Oral Cavity etc.
50% of cancers in males and 20% cancers in females
40% of TB and other related diseases
Economic costs attributable to tobacco use in 2011 for persons aged 35-69 is Rs. 1,04,500 crores.
Loss to environment such as deforestation, pollution, litter, forest fires etc.
Benefit of Quiting Tobacco
In 8 hours: Oxygen levels return to normal.
In 24 hours: Risk of heart attack begins to decrease.
In 72 hours: Lung function improves.
In 1-9 months: Coughing and shortness of breath decreases.
In 12 months: Risk of heart disease is half as compared to tobacco user.
In 5 years: Stroke risk is reduced.
In 10 years: Risk of lung cancer is less than half as compared to tobacco user.
In 15 years: Risk of heart disease is similar to a person who never smoked.
Reduced risk of diseases attributable to tobacco use
Reduced health care expenditure means more money for other essential expenditures
You become a role model for your children as well as for your society
Cessation Facilities
Quitline: Counselling on telephone by expert counsellors in all languages (Tollfree 1800 11 2356)
mCessation: Counselling through mobile SMS (011 22901701)
Tobacco Cessation Centre (TCC): Counselling at district level
26.7 Crores (28.6%)
Tobacco Users among persons aged 15 + in India
Economic costs attributable to tobacco use was
Rs. 1,04,500 crores
in 2011 for persons aged 35-69
About 3500 deaths daily in India are attributable to tobacco use
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