AWARNESS PROGRAM ON HARMFUL EFFECT OF TOBACCO
On 13 th February 2021, an awareness program on National Tobacco Control on the Harmful effects of tobacco was organised by Department of Health & Family Welfare Udupi in association with the Vaikunta Baliga College of Law. The resource person for the session was Ms. Shyla Shamnur, District Social worker. The resource person in her talk created awareness about the harmful effect of Tobacco and she made a reference to COTPA—The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce production, supply and distribution) Act 2003. This Act which was created with the intention of controlling the consumption of tobacco amongst the citizens. In her session she in detail made a reference to the chemical components used in production of tobacco and the harm it causes to the human body. How people are getting addicted to it and what are the ways through which we can come out from such menace. Finally at the end of the program all the students present took a moral responsibility as to not involve themselves in such harmful habits.
