India is one of the six countries that received the 2025 Bloomberg Philanthropy Award for global tobacco control to prioritize tobacco closure approaches to reach a significant number of tobacco users in the country.
The National Tobacco Control Cell of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India was presented at the World Conference on Tobacco Control held in Dublin, Ireland on Monday.
India was awarded the ‘O’ category award to promote tobacco termination. The ‘O’ is the MPover policy package of the World Health Organization (WHO) that offers ‘help to leave the use of tobacco’.
The awards celebrated several governments and NGOs and made progress to reduce the use of tobacco. Other countries receiving the award were Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Philippines and Ukraine.
The WHO Global Tobacco Epies 2025 report developed with the support of Bloomberg philanthropists was also launched on the occasion.
In India, a full range of services has been set to reduce the use of tobacco in the country, including mobile termination measures between tobacco testing laboratories and others. It includes a well-installed national toll-free quit line, which has around 50,000 calls per month and primary care facilities and free termination aid services in hospitals.
Tobacco termination services are provided in 675 district hospitals, 302 dental institutions, 361 medical institutions and 607 non-communicable diseases (NCD) clinics, oral health clinics and community health centers. Niman, Vallabhai Patel is leaving four posts at Chest Center, New Delhi, Bye Memorial Center and Boruh Cancer Institute in Guwahati.
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Between 2007 and 2023, the prevalence of global average smoking has come down from 22.3 percent to 16.4 percent, a relative reduction of 26 percent in 16 years. According to the report, the spread of adult daily smoking in India in 2023 was 7 percent. While experts said that tobacco -free tobacco was a major concern in India, several steps have been taken to solve many challenges.
“India is constantly trying to help people to leave tobacco through the Bharat National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP). It involves the establishment of tobacco termination clinics in various places (including dental and medical facilities), Screening and interference in primary care with Aishman Aishman Arogya Mandir. Dr. Dr, Director and Senior Professor of Psychiatry at Off Mental Health and Neuro Sciences. Pratama Murthy, who received the award from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, told, The Indian Express,
“Tobacco -free youth campaign and telemanus initiative also represents efforts to address the underlying causes of initiation of tobacco use. This broad effort indicates India’s commitment to reduce the use of tobacco and promote public health. It is a complete honor to receive prizes from the Government of India,” Dr. Marthi said.
Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg, the founder of philanthropy and the global ambassador for non -conducting diseases and injuries, presented the award. “Since Bloomberg philanthropists began supporting global tobacco control efforts, since the countries have stopped the use of tobacco, but still a long way to go,” Bloomberg,
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Meanwhile, the WHO Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 report shows that the most striking profit has been in graphic health warning, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), one of the major measures under tobacco control (FCTC), which makes it impossible to ignore tobacco loss.
At the award ceremony, Michael R. Bloomberg also announced a new $ 20 million accelerator fund to help in advance progression in countries where tobacco control has stopped. Bloomberg philanthropists will work with partners to engage governments and NGOs in many low and medium-income countries, with either the best-existence lack of tobacco control measures or all the best-exercise measures are close to implementing measures.
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