New Delhi: India is between 60 countries on the track to achieve a 30 percent reduction global target in the use of tobacco in 2025, according to the Fourth Global Global Tobacco Trend report.
According to the report, the number of tobacco users has declined globally to 1.30 billion by 2020 of 1.32 billion in 2015.
It is expected to continue to fall to 1.27 billion by 2025.
The next report said that the rate of decline was fastest In the use of tobacco, it was seen in the WHO South-East region, with the prevalence of the average smoking among men who declined from 50 percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2020 and tobacco smoking among women who declined sharply from 8.9 percent in the year 2000 to 1.6 percent.
In 2020.
“Sustainable political commitment and endless efforts by countries to strengthen supervision, expand tobacco control measures including termination services to help users stop from tobacco are some of the main reasons for success,” Dr.
Regional director, south of the East Asia region, in a statement.
The current area has the highest level of tobacco use, with around 432 million users, or 29 percent of the population.
It is also home to 266 million smokeless tobacco users from 355 million globally.
Tobacco use is one of the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCD) and effective tobacco controls is important for prevention and control of NCD.
Millions of lives have been saved by effective and comprehensive tobacco control policies under the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (WHO FCTC) and Mpower.
If the tobacco control efforts continue at the current level, the level of smoking in the Southeast Asian region can reach as low as 11 percent in 2025.
This will be the second lowest regional level after Africa – 7.5 percent in 2025, said Singh.
Furthermore, WHO’s global report shows that 150 countries have shown a decline in tobacco use and from only 32 countries on its lane two years ago, at this time 60 countries were on track.
This is released from the arrival of Covid-19 in the last 2 years.
“It is very encouraging to see fewer people who use tobacco every year, and more countries are on track to meet global targets,” said Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is the Director General, in a statement.
“We still have a long way, and tobacco companies will continue to use every trick in this book to maintain the giant profits they make from peddle their deadly items.
We encourage all countries to utilize many effective tools available for better.
Help people to stop , and save life, “he added.
According to the report, the latest evidence also shows that the tobacco industry uses a covid pandemic to build influence with the government in 80 countries, including in India.
But India increases efforts to protect health policies, according to a report by the tobacco industry watchdog stop.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare of the family adopted the code of ethics aimed at preventing industrial interference and conflicts of interest among public officials and all departments in the ministry’s jurisdiction, he said.
The WHO report also showed that by 2020, 22.3 percent of the global population used tobacco, 36.7 percent of all men and 7.8 percent of women in the world.
About 38 million children (aged 13-15) are currently using tobacco (13 million girls and 25 million boys).
In most illegal countries for underage children to buy tobacco products.
The aim is to reach Zero Child Tobacco user.
The number of women using tobacco in 2020 was 231 million.
The age group with the highest prevalence rate among women for tobacco use is 55-64.