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AIZAWL, 22 Mar:<\/strong> Mizoram along with Arunachal Pradesh has the highest tobacco use in the country among students in the age group of 13-15 years, an official said.<\/p>\n Addressing a workshop on Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)-4 and tobacco-free educational institutions for media persons here, National Tobacco Control Programme state consultant R Lalremruata on Monday said that at least 58 percent of students in Mizoram in the age group of 13-15 years use tobacco against the national average of 8.5 percent.<\/p>\n Mizoram and Arunachal have occupied the first rank in tobacco use among students of this age group, the official said, quoting a report of the GYTS-4 conducted in 2019.<\/p>\n The report was released in August 2021.<\/p>\n Lalremruata said that 44 percent of students in the state are currently using smoked tobacco, while 33 percent use smokeless tobacco.<\/p>\n He said that 35 percent smoke cigarettes and 4.6 percent smoke bidi.<\/p>\n He said that the main reason for the high rate of tobacco use among students was due to peer influence.<\/p>\n According to Lalremruata, GYTS was conducted in Mizoram in 2019 as part of a national survey by the International Institute for Population Sciences under the union health & family welfare ministry.<\/p>\n “A total of 1,404 students from 21 schools, including 11 private schools, had participated in the survey,” he said.<\/p>\n Among tobacco users, 53 percent wanted to quit smoking and 50 percent of smokeless tobacco users also wanted to quit it, Lalremruata said.<\/p>\n About 100 institutions in the state have been now declared ‘tobacco-free institutions’ and efforts are on to achieve 100 percent tobacco-free institutions, he said.<\/p>\n He said that 95 percent of school heads in the state are aware of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AIZAWL, 22 Mar: Mizoram along with Arunachal Pradesh has the highest tobacco use in the country among students in the age group of 13-15 years, an official said. Addressing a workshop on Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)-4 and tobacco-free educational institutions for media persons here, National Tobacco Control Programme state consultant R Lalremruata on Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}