{"id":29015,"date":"2018-10-24T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29015"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:45:28","slug":"sharp-drop-in-smoking-tobacco-in-india-says-who-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sharp-drop-in-smoking-tobacco-in-india-says-who-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp drop in smoking tobacco in India, says WHO report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharp drop in smoking tobacco in India, says WHO report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to a WHO report, smoking tobacco in India has dropped down to 11.5% in 2005 from 19.4% in 2000.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Important facts:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The percentage is expected to drop down further to 9.8% by 2020 and 8.5% by 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Although\u00a0 the reduction is insufficient to meet globally agreed targets aimed at protecting people from death and suffering from cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).<\/li>\n<li>Tobacco usage causes cancer, lung diseases, heart diseases and stroke.<\/li>\n<li>The Global Adult Tobacco Survey \u00a0revealed a serious lack of knowledge of the multiple health risks associated with tobacco.<\/li>\n<li>In China, over 60% of the population was unaware that smoking could cause heart attacks.<\/li>\n<li>Tobacco usage has decreased more slowly in low and middle income countries than high income countries.<\/li>\n<li>Because control policies in such countries is influenced by lobbying from tobacco industries.<\/li>\n<li>The report covered tobacco usage only in smoking form, but tobacco is also used in chewing form in India.<\/li>\n<li>More than 3\/4 tobacco users consume it in chewing form.<\/li>\n<li>Thus a policy is required to address the overall usage of tobacco in India.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of all tobacco users in the country reduced from 35% in 2009 to 29% in 2016-17<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-713 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/currentaffairs.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ac7f281f_2140468_101_mr.jpg?resize=431%2C679\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"679\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp drop in smoking tobacco in India, says WHO report News: According to a WHO report, smoking tobacco in India has dropped down to 11.5% in 2005 from 19.4% in 2000. Important facts: The percentage is expected to drop down further to 9.8% by 2020 and 8.5% by 2025. Although\u00a0 the reduction is insufficient to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sharp-drop-in-smoking-tobacco-in-india-says-who-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharp drop in smoking tobacco in India, says WHO report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704591741},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}