The Nepali Ministry of Health and Population has called on all sides concerned to coordinate and cooperate in anti-tobacco campaign to make tobacco-free home and society, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.
The ministry has also called for the adoption of the policy of checking and controlling production, distribution and consumption of tobacco products.
Various speakers at a discussion program organized by the National Health Education, Information and Communication Center on anti-tobacco stressed the concerted efforts to discourage the issue of tobacco in Nepal.
According to the data of the World Health Organization (WHO), around 15,000 people in Nepal died every year due to the consumption of tobacco.
Nepal has been involved in the world anti-tobacco campaign by signing up the WHO Structure Policy Convention on tobacco control.
Source: Xinhua
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