Choubey calls for community participation to encourage people to give up tobacco

Union Minister of State (MoS) for Health Ashwini Choubey today stressed on the need for community participation to encourage people to give up tobacco as he made a strong pitch for accelerating tobacco-control measures for achieving the National Health Policy goals.

Inaugurating a two-day national consultation on accelerating the implementation of tobacco-control measures, Choubey made an appeal for a "Nasha Mukti Abhiyaan" (addiction-free campaign), saying, "Tobacco destroys families and communities. We need to start a nationwide campaign, a people's movement, to combat tobacco use."