title: Tobacco Control in India; A Myth or Reality- Five Year Retrospective Analysis Using WHO MPOWER for Tobacco Control.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India and government of India has taken various initiatives for tobacco control in the country. India was among the first few countries to ratify WHO the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2004 and to make it easy, WHO introduced the MPOWER measures.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to quantify the implementation of MPOWER tobacco control policies in India.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this retrospective analysis information was collected from the WHO report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic Program, India for the year 2009, 2011 and 2013 using MPOWER and this analysis was based on the checklist which was designed previously by Iranian and international tobacco control specialists in their study on tobacco control and its cut-offs were set according to the scoring of key sections of the MPOWER 2011 report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this study India was ranked by scores and these scores were obtained from each indicator for each activity. The highest scores were achieved in 2013 and there are marked increase in scores in health warning on cigarette packages but as far as the cessation programmes and taxation is concerned, there is decline in the progress.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MPOWER programmes are accepted in the India but there is considerable room for improvement as we are still far from the ideal situation.
authors.affiliation: Tutor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Ravneet
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Malhi
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Ritu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Patthi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Basavaraj
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singla
authors.affiliation: Tutor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Vaibhav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vashishtha
authors.affiliation: Tutor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Venisha
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pandita
authors.affiliation: Tutor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Jishnu Krishna
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Tutor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, D.J College of Dental Sciences & Research , Ghaziabad, India .
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prasad
keywords: Cessation programmes; India; Prevention and control