Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh
Background Kanpur nagar is big industrial city of India and hub for pan masala and tobacco manufacturers. Despite these challenges district administration along with health department has taken important steps to combat the control use of tobacco in mission mode. Under the umbrella of National Toba...
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| description | Background
Kanpur nagar is big industrial
city of India and hub for pan masala and tobacco manufacturers. Despite these challenges district administration
along with health department has taken important steps to combat the control
use of tobacco in mission mode. Under the umbrella of National Tobacco control
Program the strict implementation of Sec- 4, 5, 6 & 7 of COTPA Act 2003 is
executed in District Kanpur Nagar both rural and urban areas.
Government of india enacted' (COTPA)' 2003,which prohibits smoking in public places.
Methods
It was Cross sectional study
conducted in May 2015 in 6 urban and 2 rural blocks of Kanpur city. For
compliance monitoring an observation checklist was used which had been
developed by department of Community Medicine GSVM Medical college Kanpur , the
minimum sample size was estimated to be 499 at the the estimated compliance of
50% , confidence interval of 95% and at 5 % margin of error. Other law used for
Tobacco free offices, like Spitting law, MCD.
Results
“No Smoking/Tobacco free
sinages”were displayed at 84.50 %, “No smoking/Tobacco free sinages were
displayed either at entrance or conspicuous places at 98.14%, Cigarette butts
or bidi stubs at the time of visit were noticed at 15.33% public places. In
none of the educational institute, point of sale was found inside the campus
.point of sale of tobacco products was within 100 yards of radius distance from
main gate of 12 (15%) educational institution.
Conclusions
In view of finding of the present
survey across 574 sites in urban and rural Kanpur Nagar representing 7 different
categories of public places the compliance to provisions of section 4, section
5 and section 6 of COTPA is observed to be more than 80 Percent. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29c3ce4116e0479d8bbcd0e56226a0fc2022-12-22T02:38:35ZengEuropean PublishingTobacco Induced Diseases1617-96252018-03-0116110.18332/tid/8419484194Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar PradeshArun Kumar Srivastava0Satish Kumar Tripathi1Health Department, IndiaState Tobacco Control Cell, IndiaBackground Kanpur nagar is big industrial city of India and hub for pan masala and tobacco manufacturers. Despite these challenges district administration along with health department has taken important steps to combat the control use of tobacco in mission mode. Under the umbrella of National Tobacco control Program the strict implementation of Sec- 4, 5, 6 & 7 of COTPA Act 2003 is executed in District Kanpur Nagar both rural and urban areas. Government of india enacted' (COTPA)' 2003,which prohibits smoking in public places. Methods It was Cross sectional study conducted in May 2015 in 6 urban and 2 rural blocks of Kanpur city. For compliance monitoring an observation checklist was used which had been developed by department of Community Medicine GSVM Medical college Kanpur , the minimum sample size was estimated to be 499 at the the estimated compliance of 50% , confidence interval of 95% and at 5 % margin of error. Other law used for Tobacco free offices, like Spitting law, MCD. Results “No Smoking/Tobacco free sinages”were displayed at 84.50 %, “No smoking/Tobacco free sinages were displayed either at entrance or conspicuous places at 98.14%, Cigarette butts or bidi stubs at the time of visit were noticed at 15.33% public places. In none of the educational institute, point of sale was found inside the campus .point of sale of tobacco products was within 100 yards of radius distance from main gate of 12 (15%) educational institution. Conclusions In view of finding of the present survey across 574 sites in urban and rural Kanpur Nagar representing 7 different categories of public places the compliance to provisions of section 4, section 5 and section 6 of COTPA is observed to be more than 80 Percent.http://www.journalssystem.com/tid/Compliance-COTPA-2003-and-other-supportive-law-for-tobacco-free-district-Kanpur-Nagar,84194,0,2.htmlWCTOH |
| spellingShingle | Arun Kumar Srivastava Satish Kumar Tripathi Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh Tobacco Induced Diseases WCTOH |
| title | Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh |
| title_full | Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh |
| title_fullStr | Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh |
| title_short | Compliance COTPA 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district Kanpur Nagar in State of Uttar Pradesh |
| title_sort | compliance cotpa 2003 and other supportive law for tobacco free district kanpur nagar in state of uttar pradesh |
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