DUSU to bring in freshers for smoke free campus

With the beginning of new academic session, the Delhi University Students Union is organising a programme to promote the movement of establishing a smoke free campus. To further encourage the students, health minister Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss will attend the campaign.

To the knowledge of all, Delhi University was declared “No Smoking Zone” on Feb 14, 2008 and with constant endeavour, the university authority has been engaged with various activities and this time ropes in with freshers to take the initiative forward.

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The programme by one of the central university student will certainly give some cheer to the health minister Ramadoss, who has ever since been raising his voice against tobacco; drawing praise as well as criticism from various quarters.

The minister in October last year had announced a complete ban on smoking which is applicable in public places including shopping mall, cinema halls etc. State Governments are being sensitized to accord due priority to the implementation of the law.

“The Cigarette and other tobacco products (Prohibition and Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production Supply and Distribution”) Act, 2003 is one of the most comprehensive tobacco control act in the world.

Government of India has launched National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) in the 11th five-year plan to implement anti-tobacco laws. School programme is one of the crucial parts of the national programme targeting school children as well as the college going youth.

India is one of the pioneer signatories of World Health Organisation (WHO) – Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Indian legislative efforts have been one of the most advanced and strict in implementing the framework.

Delhi is one of the nine States to be covered under National Tobacco Control Programme and also to be given consultant under Bloomberg Global Initiative. India is one of the 5 focus countries under the initiative.