Puff picture `grim' in state .... 436 new kid smokers daily
TT, 5 May 2019, Calcutta: More than 400 new children get addicted to tobacco every day in Bengal, an oncologist said while addressing principals and teachers in the city recently.
"Every day 436 new children below the age of 15 in our state get addicted to tobacco. In our country, the tobacco industry targets the young generation, including school students," Sourav Datta, consultant head and neck onco-surgeon, said, quoting data from the Indian Journal of Paediatric Health. Once addicted it is difficult to quit and the "quit rate is less than 3 per cent".
Datta was one of the speakers at a panel discussion on "Future generation has the power to make the world tobacco-free", in association with The Telegraph, at Quest mall on Tuesday.
A special screening of the film Kontho followed the discussion, attended by 100 principals and teachers from 50 schools in the city.
The cigarettes and other tobacco products act bans the sale of tobacco products within a 100m radius of any educational institution, Datta said. "The rule is not implementedMetro in January had visited shops within a 100m radius of various schools and found cigarettes on sale. Some had cakes and biscuits on display in the front, while cigarette packets were kept "hidden" and provided on demand.
Radio host Jimmy Tangree moderated the discussion. "Many of us at our age cannot do much about tobacco because people are into it, many people are addicted to it and the not-so-old and the not-soyoung keep puffing right through the day," he said.
"But we can come together -- institutions, schools and parents -- and ask our children right from a young age to hate smoking and tobaccoAbhijit Banerjee, a cardiologist who underwent laryngectomy in 2011, used an electrolarynx, to address the audience. He would not have needed it had he not smoked, Banerjee said.
Paoli Dam and Jaya Ahsan who have acted in Kontho, a film on a radio jockey who has to undergo laryngectomy, were on the panel.
"Every day 436 new children below the age of 15 in our state get addicted to tobacco. In our country, the tobacco industry targets the young generation, including school students," Sourav Datta, consultant head and neck onco-surgeon, said, quoting data from the Indian Journal of Paediatric Health. Once addicted it is difficult to quit and the "quit rate is less than 3 per cent".
Datta was one of the speakers at a panel discussion on "Future generation has the power to make the world tobacco-free", in association with The Telegraph, at Quest mall on Tuesday.
A special screening of the film Kontho followed the discussion, attended by 100 principals and teachers from 50 schools in the city.
The cigarettes and other tobacco products act bans the sale of tobacco products within a 100m radius of any educational institution, Datta said. "The rule is not implementedMetro in January had visited shops within a 100m radius of various schools and found cigarettes on sale. Some had cakes and biscuits on display in the front, while cigarette packets were kept "hidden" and provided on demand.
Radio host Jimmy Tangree moderated the discussion. "Many of us at our age cannot do much about tobacco because people are into it, many people are addicted to it and the not-so-old and the not-soyoung keep puffing right through the day," he said.
"But we can come together -- institutions, schools and parents -- and ask our children right from a young age to hate smoking and tobaccoAbhijit Banerjee, a cardiologist who underwent laryngectomy in 2011, used an electrolarynx, to address the audience. He would not have needed it had he not smoked, Banerjee said.
Paoli Dam and Jaya Ahsan who have acted in Kontho, a film on a radio jockey who has to undergo laryngectomy, were on the panel.
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