Meghalaya: Mahendraganj's Captain Manik Das School students took to the streets to raise awareness on tobacco
Mahendraganj's Manik Das School students took to the streets to raise awareness about tobacco use.
Today, students from Mahendraganj's Captain Manik Das School staged a demonstration against a tobacco awareness campaign. The youngsters were guided by a teacher who said that the Education Office Ampati had given the order to hold a tabbaco awareness programme.
The community was asked by the students holding placards to cease using tabbaco, which is extremely harmful to health, in order to preserve a healthy lifestyle. Chewing tabaco results in cancer, which claims the lives of numerous people each year.
Together with a teacher, the students of Captain Manik Das school Mahendraganj went across the street to raise villagers' understanding of tabbaco.
WHO estimates that up to 50% of tobacco users die from their addiction. More than 8 million individuals die from tobacco-related diseases every year. Around 1.2 million of those fatalities are caused by non-smokers being exposed to secondhand smoke, whereas more than 7 million are caused by direct tobacco use.
Over 80% of the 1.3 billion tobacco smokers worldwide reside in low- and middle-income nations.
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