JAIPUR: The state government is taking measures to make Jaipur smoke-free city by the end of this financial year through effective implementation of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Product Act (COTPA)

High blood pressure (BP) has become the world’s deadliest diseasecausing risk factor.

Factors in 2010: diabetes, high blood pressure, tobacco smoking, including second-hand smoking, and alcohol use

The three leading risk factors for global disease burden in 2010 were high blood pressure, tobacco smoking, including second-hand smoking, and alcohol use, while in 1990 the leading risks were childhood underweight, household pollution from sold fuels, and tobacco smoking, including passive smoking.

The incidence of oral cancer could see a drop. This is the hope held out by a survey conducted four months after the state banned gutkha and pan masala in July.

When it comes to pictorial warnings on tobacco packets, India ranks a low 123 among 198 countries surveyed on the warnings parameter.

Pictorial warnings on cigarette packs continue to sully India’s anti-tobacco efforts on the global arena.