Today's Blog: Saturday the 31st of May, 2025.
'Cigerette smoking is injurious to health.' We come across these words everywhere as there is more awareness about tobacco chewing and smoking in any form. Injurious in the sense that it causes cancer. The UN adopted the 31st of May as anti tobacco day. The theme for this year is quite interesting as it says...'BRIGHT PRODUCTS, DARK INTENTIONS AND UNMASKING THE APPEAL.' How true, isn't it? The packaging is made to look alluring and entice a person to pick this deadly habit.
Children are the most vulnerable targets for these multi national companies as they showcase a celebrity lighting up. Many factors like emotional or peer pressure or study or work pressure in adolescents and adults can engulf a person or a child into the vortex of smoking. Even if a person is a non-smoker but standing near or in front of a person who is smoking becomes a passive smoker that can cause immense health risk as the smoker himself.
Sometimes, if a person gets addicted to smoking, then seeing a counselor helps to a great deal. In villages, people chew tobacco which is as harmful as smoking. Awareness, counselling and the right motivation are some of the best bets we can rely on.
Educational institutions play a significant role in catching the children young. Film-shows and graphic slides must be shown to children to wean them away from the perils of this deadly addiction.
Let's raise a generation that is healthier than their predecessors.