Around 1200 persons quit smoking in Kashmir in the last four years, official data reveals.
As per the data, 147 persons quitted smoking in 2022-23 in Kashmir, 642 in 2021-22, 212 in 2020-21 and 194 in 2019-20.
Officials claim that slew of measures have been taken to decrease the percentage of tobacco consumption in the UT even as they claim that percentage has started going down due to the efforts of the National Tobacco Control Programme launched by the Government.
Notably as per GATS-2 data 35.2% men and 5.1% women, while 20.8% of all adults currently smoke tobacco in J-K. (KNO)
