Quit 'TOBACCO' choose 'LIFE'

Anti-tobacco day or No tobacco day is observed on 31 may all over the world every year. This annual event is organised by World health Organization to make people aware and to educate them about the harmful effects of tobacco on health and causes several diseases like tooth decay, cancer, cardiovascular disease, staining of teeth etc. Generally people consumer tobacco leaves via smoking through cigarette, cigar and also chawing it. WHO theme for the No tobacco day 2019 was tobacco and lung health. Chewing tobacco paves both long and short term effect on health, it can cause ulcer, staining of teeth, cavities, tooth decay, teeth decay. It also causes bad breath; sores mouth and even make difficult for a person to eat food. It sometimes it makes tongue senseless due to which person will not be able to taste food. Chewing of tobacco can cause oral cancer or pre-cancers, if a person continually consume or chew tobacco then short term disease will turned into long term disease and causes severe health problem like cancer, lung disease, heart disease and stock etc. Society of Advancement of Resourceless by Training and handholding celebrated World No Tobacco day on May 31, 2019 in association with IGNOU, regional centre Lucknow and Veerangana Avanti Bai district women hospital Lucknow our motive was to create awareness regarding bad effects of consuming tobacco among adolescent, men, women and to whole society. On the occasion information regarding bad effects due to consumption of tobacco had been explained by Dr Salma Khan of Veerangana Avanti Bai district women hospital Lucknow. SAMARTH secretary Dr. Pravesh Dwivedi told that mostly all the disease are causing due to consumption of Tobacco he told that around 32% working people are consuming tobacco. By the help of SAMARTH officers and voluntaries awareness regarding no tabacco was spread. The skit was presented by the girls of Imaliya village in which Savita , Babli, Rajni, Anita and Sonakshi participated and the skit was directed by Aparna Pandey Advocacy officer. A very strong message was delivered by the skit that the addiction of tobacco causes death. In today’s era young boy or even girls are consuming tobacco in huge amount which destroying their career. Young Girls and boys are the future of our country so we should make them aware about the fact that tobacco is very much harmful for the health they should never consume it and if they are consuming it then they should quit it as soon as possible. IGNOURegional director Dr. Manorama Singh said to the audience that inspite being having good status economically and socially. Society is not changing its behaviour if you quit tobacco then you will spent good life. Dr Singh said that this will only possible then both village people and urban people get awareness and this is the responsibility of all family members to make other person aware. IGNOURegional assistant director Dr. Kirti Vikram Singh said that for good health one should quit Tobacco and it a responsibility of everyone to make society aware. Everyone took oath that ‘I promise to not smoke or use any kind of product of Tobacco which is very harmful for health in whole life, I will also try to encourage or convince masses who do smoke or use tobacco in any form to quit smoking or using tobacco product and I will also promise to support as they try to quit it’.After taking oath everyone step forward for awareness rally in which everyone took part the rally was started from the Veerangana Avanti Bai district women hospital Lucknow and took full round of nearby area. After the completion of the rally everyone came together for group photograph. Many media houses were presented there for coverage like NBT, Dainik jagran and Amar ujala. After returning back our community girls seemed so happy to visit hospital because for the first time they saw the government health system from very near they also interacted with the doctors and nurses. The time spent so well, as our girls learnt so many useful lessons which were given by the prominent peoples there.

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