JAMMU, Sept. 3 -- A one day sensitization workshop on National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) was today held for the Nodal Officers of key stakeholder departments by State Tobacco Control Cell Directorate of Health Services Jammu. Participants from Health, Police, Sales Tax Excise, Education, Labour , members from Civil Society and several other stakeholders attended the workshop.
In his address, Director Health Services, Jammu Dr Abdul Hamid Zargar highlighted the impending need for eradicating the menace of Tobacco consumption. "More than 50 lakh persons lose their life to tobacco attributable causes yearly worldwide- the number of deaths in India being 13.5 lakh," the DHSJ said. He said that the Department of Health is actively workin...