After a strict ban on smoking in public places, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss is now targeting the alcohol consumption in the country.

Mr. Ramadoss stated that a national plan for alcohol control will soon be launched in the nation. 

He said discussion with scientists and experts have already begun, and it will be ready within a month or two. 

Mr. Ramadoss has decided that as Health Minister, he has to chalk out plans, which will prohibit or permit acts in line with his sanitization agenda for India.

He was successfully able to implement the smoking ban with the Supreme Court upholding the orders.

He also said that the increase in alcohol consumption was a worrying trend. 

The Health Minister said, “On weekends in cities like Bangalore and Chennai even women are going on smoking and drinking binge. It's a dangerous trend. We'll have to intervene and regulate the system.” 

Ramadoss hoped the WHO would soon assign October 2 as the international prohibition day. 

“Alcohol consumption poses a grave threat to India, the nation with 600 million people less than 30 years of age,” he added. 

“The Constitution mandates all states to exercise prohibition but except J&K and Gujarat none of the states follow it. Prohibition is a state subject, I would urge all state governments to enforce to total prohibition.”

Moreover, the health ministry has also declared plans to lend a helping hand in order to assist those willing to try to kick the cancer stick. 

It has decided to establish 100 tobacco cessation clinics across the country by 2010.