SRINAGAR,Oct 28: 26.6% population in Jammu & Kashmir is using tobacco product in one or the other of its form. Jammu & Kashmir has 12% cigarette smokers, 3.8% bidi smokers and 8.0% smokeless tobacco users. J&K’s cigarette use prevalence (12%) is almost double the nationwide prevalence of 5.7%. It has come to light that the highest proportion of adults (67.9%) exposed to tobacco smoke in offices are in J&K and the lowest (15.4%) are in Chandigarh.
Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) in collaboration with J&K Voluntary Health Association organized a sensitization workshop on COTPA in Srinagar with the main objective of the workshop was to sensitize the officials on COTPA Act in hospitality sector with focus being on getting ‘No Smoking’ signage displayed in premises of hotels, restaurants, houseboats, shikaras, vehicles.(Agencies)
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