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Tobacco cessation clinic in city soon

Staff Reporter

It will spread awareness about hazards of smoking

NEW DELHI: On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on Saturday, the Medical Superintendent of Rajen Babu Tuberculosis Hospital here at Kingsway Camp, Dr. J.N. Banavaliker, announced that the hospital would be starting a tobacco cessation clinic in a week.

The aim of the clinic is to spread public awareness about the hazards of smoking. The clinic will seek to motivate smokers to give up smoking and endeavour to create awareness among youth so that they do not get addicted to smoking.

Pointing out that smoking causes about 90 per cent lung cancer deaths in men and 80 per cent deaths in women and kills six lakh males and one lakh females every year in India, Dr. Banavaliker said it also causes various lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and tuberculosis, delaying the response of anti-TB drugs in TB patients.

“The World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 to raise awareness around the world about the dangers of tobacco abuse, which happens in many forms including use of cigarettes, bidis, hookah and gutka. This year’s theme is ‘Tobacco and Youth’. In India, 14 per cent of school children consume tobacco in some form or the other, while over 14 per cent students are regular tobacco users,” said Dr. Banavaliker.

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