Union Health ministry asks states to penalise violation of tobacco rules
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New Delhi: State health departments should consider notifying additional enforcement officers like head constables and municipal officers to impose and collect fines for violation of tobacco rules, the Union Health ministry has said in an advisory.
The letter issued on October 25 by Joint Secretary Vikas Sheel to all principal secretaries noted that India is the third largest tobacco producing nation and second largest consumer of tobacco worldwide.
“Mortality due to tobacco in India is estimated at upwards of 1.3 million. One feature of tobacco related mortality in lndia is the high incidence of oral cancer, exceeding even that of lung cancer and accounting for almost half of all oral cancers in the world,” he said in the letter.
New Delhi: State health departments should consider notifying additional enforcement officers like head constables and municipal officers to impose and collect fines for violation of tobacco rules, the Union Health ministry has said in an advisory.
The letter issued on October 25 by Joint Secretary Vikas Sheel to all principal secretaries noted that India is the third largest tobacco producing nation and second largest consumer of tobacco worldwide.
“Mortality due to tobacco in India is estimated at upwards of 1.3 million. One feature of tobacco related mortality in lndia is the high incidence of oral cancer, exceeding even that of lung cancer and accounting for almost half of all oral cancers in the world,” he said in the letter.
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