Open AccessTobacco Control in India; A Myth or Reality- Five Year Retrospective Analysis Using WHO MPOWER for Tobacco Control
Author(s) -
Ravneet Malhi,
Ritu Gupta,
Basavaraj Patthi,
Ashish Singla,
Vaibhav Vashishtha,
Venisha Pandita,
Jitendra Kumar,
M. V. R. Prasad
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/14528.6748
Subject(s) - checklist , tobacco control , environmental health , government (linguistics) , public health , medicine , psychology , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , cognitive psychology
Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India and government of India has taken various initiatives for tobacco control in the country. India was among the first few countries to ratify WHO the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2004 and to make it easy, WHO introduced the MPOWER measures.