 Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Thrissur & Kochi.In acknowledgement of his efforts to promote a drug-free community, in particular among youth, P. Vijayan IPS was awarded a fellowship in 2013 to attend the Global Tobacco Control Leadership Programme at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Washington DC, USA.Puthiyottil Vijayan was born on 4 February 1968 in a not-so-affluent family in a remote hamlet called Puthoormadam near Kozhikode in North Kerala.