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Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), Aparajita, which has been advocating on tobacco issues in the state to strengthen the implementation of Cigarette and other Tobacco products Act, 2003 and to prevent the families from health and economic burden due to tobacco consumption, made a brief presentation on the overview of tobacco control activities here recently.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shisir Ranjan Dash, project manager of VHAI-Aparajita, said: “After the national family health survey by the government of India in 1989-99 which says Orissa has the second highest rate in females chewing tobacco i.e. 34.9 per cent, after Mizoram (60.7 per cent), no further surveys have been made. We are dreading that the figure might have reached above 60 per cent.”

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