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Every year, on 31 may, the World Health Organization (who) and various global partners celebrate world no tobacco day (WNTD). The reason behind this annual campaign is to raise awareness on the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure which is also referred as effect of dangerous passive smoking and to discourage the use of tobacco in any form.
If we focus on the statistics provided by who then we can find that there are almost 120 million smokers in India
which is 12% of the world’s smokers. Every year more than 10 million die in India due to tobacco in India.
As per the survey conducted by the international institute of population science and the ministry of health and family welfare, it had been found that 56.6% of people in Kolkata smoke, the highest rate in the country. 82% of men and 23.5% of women smoke in Kolkata.
On the world no tobacco day let’s take an oath by saying no to tobacco hence forth!!!!!
There are lot of ways to bid good bye to your tobacco buddies and they are:
1. To make an alternative habit to chew sugar free gum, hard candies, sunflower seeds, cayenne powder.
2. To detect the craving time for tobacco try to keep a handy note book to make a note of the time of tobacco cravings and it will help you to divert your mind at that particular time to other interesting work.
3. Try to indulge yourself in any fun activity like swimming, yoga, walking and any sorts of indoor or outdoor games of your interest.
4. If all above don’t suit you then please contact with us; we will provide you counselling for bid good bye to your tobacco habits.
Turnstone global always take various kind of initiative to mark such important days memorable by doing various awareness camps, organizing seminars , talk shows, road shows in various schools ,colleges and multiple corporate sectors in and around Kolkata and has been created alternative income generation programme for those who are directly employed with various bidi binding industries in rural Bengal. In present year we have created multiple shg groups of women whom we are promoting to work on different kind of handicrafts based on water hyacinth, jute and mud. Our initiatives has saved many families whose family members once employed with such industries. Among our other alternative income generation schemes for the women of economically backward section micro financing for these women brings a huge change in their socio economic sector and made them empowered having created their own identity. Our strong group efforts by the team of our social Councillor brings back their smile and confidence which alleviate their poverty. Simultaneously we from Turnstone Global have been stood beside them who are terminally ill and suffering with various disabilities caused by using tobacco by providing them nutritious food, medicines and multiple kind of accessible aids.
