Smokers Huff and Puff in Public may land you in trouble

As we are close to the 50th Union World Conference On Lung Health, the conference one year after the first ever United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) and the third UN High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases.

The conference is scheduled to be held in the city between October 30 -November 2, the state health department has set itself an ambitious target of making Hyderabad tobacco-free in the next four months. Over 6,000 delegates from 130 countries are likely to participate in the 4 day event for the first time in the country.

The theme of the conference is Ending the Emergency: Science, Leadership, Action focuses on becomes action, and that life-saving targets are met. The theme resonates strongly with TB, but it also raises awareness that all threats to lung health- TB, air pollution, tobacco, and many more.

what is needed to ensure commitments As per the plan, a massive exercise has been launched to train and it involves various stakeholders, including cops, for implementation of laws related to smoking in public places Special squads will be formed for the purpose by involving various stakeholders, including GHMC, tourism, education, transport, police, and health department. director, public health.

The first phase of the plan, GHMC, tourism, education, and transport departments would be involved in the exercise from identifying vulnerable children to outlets selling tobacco and tobacco products, but will also impose penalties for smoking in public places.

Tobacco has been found to be the prime reason for various lung ailments, including tuberculosis (TB) and lung cancer.

The government planned to ban smoking in enclosed public places as smokers are increasingly required to smoke outdoors, problems arise when smokers cluster around entrances and exits, and near air conditioning intake vents.

People who enter and exit the building are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke. (ETS) and there are maybe problems with a smoke drift into indoor smoke-free areas. Several states and territories have introduced legislation to create a smoke-free buffer zone around entrances to buildings and airconditioning intakes.

While the state health department along with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease has launched the tobacco-free Hyderabad initiative with the aim of declaring the city smoking-free before the international conference, police have launched a crackdown on smoking in public places.