The second contest on Financial Participatory Approach (FPA) under the theme ‘Infrastructure for Nature Conservation’ was held at Punglwa village on May 25. It was organised by NEPED for KfW Project.
Dimapur, May 27 (MExN): Can Youth in collaboration with District Tobacco Control Cell (DTCC) under National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) organized anti-tobacco awareness programme at River Belt School, Nagarjan on May 25.
The resource person Imkumla, Psychologist, NTCP, Dimapur said that Nagaland will observe World No Tobacco Day on May 31, under the theme ‘Tobacco – A threat to environment.’ A press release from Can Youth stated that in her presentation, Imkumla spoke about the types of tobacco and the harmful chemicals in tobacco products. She said that cigarette contains 7000 chemicals and smokeless tobacco (Gutka) contains 3095 chemicals many of which are known carcinogens and how smokeless tobacco is danger which is often ignored.
She talked on some of tobacco facts of high chances of having oral diseases who takes tobacco, where today every 6 seconds someone dies from tobacco use. About 7% who die of tobacco in years are of most productive age group from 30 – 39 years and 8 million people die globally in a year.
She also said that pregnant women who smoke will have three fold increased risk of stillbirth and low birth and weight baby. Imkumla shared on the Global Adult Tobacco Survey North East India of GATS 2010 which it shows that Nagaland is the second highest tobacco consuming state with 56.8% and has reduced to 43.3% in 2016 GATS report.
