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Survey shows tobacco use down by 33% among youth, 53% plan to quit [1]

India has 81 lakh fewer tobacco users now than it did in 2010, with tobacco use falling by six percentage points in the past seven years, according to the latest Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS).

Publication Date: 
13/06/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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India [3], Tobacco [4], Smoking [5], Health Effects [6], Tobacco Related Cancer [7], Health [8]
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