The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called upon its member-countries to ban tobacco advertising to protect youth from taking to smoking. Studies have shown that most smokers in South-East Asia start tobacco consumption before the age of 18 years, and almost a quarter of them start using it even before they are 10, it has said.

On 'Anti Smoking Day' J&K Fine-Arts Society in collaboration with Shangrilla Public School has organized a poster making competition today in the premises of the school. The topic on which the poster was made is 'consequences of smoking on health and impact of on it on others'. Number of students took part in the competition. Sarvesh Gupta stood first, Srishti Gupta secured second position and Reshika Raina secured position respectively.

Increasing use of tobacco, in the form of pan masala and gutkha that has a more devastating effect than the puff- PS Prakasa Rao No evil habit has enslaved the people of the whole world as the use of tobacco. Globally, tobacco has been identified as the foremost preventable cause of death and disability. Non-cigarette tobacco is a big worry for all of us. Chewing pan masala or gutkha has become an urban habit, with more and more educated people taking to it.

Calling for a nation-wide campaign to demand a total ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the Heart Care Foundation of India has dubbed tobacco as the leading preventable cause of death in the world.

According to a recent study conducted by experts from the Wellingdon hospital in New Zealand, desk jobs are potentially life threatening, and pose a serious health hazard for employees who work all day hunched on swanky chairs. The findings of the study, published in the Journal of Royal Society of Medicine, have come as a shock to millions of office-goers across the world. Desk jobs, many opine, are safer and healthier than jobs that require being out in the field. But the study is likely to put things in perspective and bring about a major change in attitudes.

To mark the World No-Tobacco Day, Delhi University held a protest march in collaboration with the Delhi University Students Union, World Lung Foundation, Delhi Police and the market-association of Kamla Nagar-Jawahar Nagar on Friday morning. The participants, including faculty and students of DU marched from Jawahar Nagar to Chhatra Marg, passing colleges like Kirori Mal, Faculty of Management Studies, Ramjas, Delhi School of Economics and stopped at Faculty of Law, where artists of Awahaan, a theatre group, performed a street play on this theme.