Fighting Tobacco Addiction

( An important article on a very critical global problem )

It is a positive sign that the civic and other departments have taken an initiative to eradicate tobacco addiction. Despite surveys and scientific studies proving that tobacco consumption in any form is injurious to health, a section of people continue to smoke or chew gutkha and mava . It is alarming that the youth are hooked to these vices.

The government's efforts to check the menace seems to have gone in vain as guthka addicts have switched to mava . In this context, governments across the country need to think beyond economic consideration and find a way out to make the state tobacco-free. Besides this, family, friends, and relatives of addicts should be.