VIEWS ON SMOKING

Through the columns of your esteemed paper I would like to express my views sweet poison which people dearly cherish and buy with their hard earned money. I point to the perils of smoking which is increasing monstrously in our all layers of society, especially the younger generations.

Although it is a word-out subject, but still it needs a continuous struggle against this national menace. Each packet of cigarettes does contain an instruction or warning that smoking is injurious to health, but it seems to have no deterrent effect. Therefore it needs a large scale campaign on all levels, depicting out the injuries glaringly which the smoking is highly to incur, It is a curse.

In my view, we should combat it by placing strict limitations on smoking in all places where people assemble as cinema houses, auditorium halls, parks and gardens, within the precincts of all educational institutions, hospitals, clinics, offices of government departments and private enterprises, entertainment halls etc. Besides the students should be made aware of its dangers by prominent people, by lectures, and the display of actual films on afflicted persons.

Smoking not only sucks the robust heath of the people, destroys the vitality and ultimately damages the brain, effects the lunges and gives rise to the chronic diseases like cancer etc. The publicity and advertising components by the cigarette manufacturers must be curtailed. Government will have to decide to chose the national health of her citizens or the revenue collected from the cigarette manufacturing companies.

In the end, i would like to appeal to the learned people to come forward and make the campaign a complete success.