Hi Friends,

Yesterday was a Sunday and also is a very sunny day and it was also World Tobacco Day. I had gone for a competition organized by Impact Foundation. Impact Foundation is an NGO. Shalby Hospitals, Ahmedabad is a partner for this programme. Shalby Hospitals is one of the biggest hospital in Ahmedabad. We had to make a poster for the day and many children including me and my sister participated for this awareness programme. This was really an enriching programme for us. We made these posters because we wanted to convince the people not to eat tobacco and also stop smoking. After we made these posters we had gone for snacks. After snacks we heard the stories of people who ate tobacco and also the people who smoked. Because of smoking and eating tobacco your jaw, voice box, or any other part of your body can be removed. There were many people whose jaws and many parts of the body were removed because of cancer and eating tobacco.  

The people who went through all of these surgeries told us to never eat tobacco as it is very bad for your health. If you all think that drinking and smoking is a small thing it is not as many people need you and your support in your family. For example if a father in the family drinks, smokes and chews tobacco and then if he suddenly falls ill it will be like a pillar falling down from a house. Many people have even experienced all of this in their family. Tobacco eating and smoking also influences young children who are 15, 18 and 19 year olds and in their later stage they get to know what are the side effects of smoking and chewing tobacco.

At the end of the programme the volunteers of Impact Foundation showed us a skit in which they told us about the side effects of smoking. They showed us a dance and in that dance they showed that how their friends were smoking and at the end how one of their friend died because of smoking and asthma. They also showed that the students who used to not smoke were healthier than the students who smoked because they had and healthy lifestyle. It is your choice whether you want to have a healthy lifestyle or you want a sedimentary lifestyle.

It is your choice do you want to become a good person or do you want to influence your own family members to have a bad choice and continue smoking…..

Regards

Ruchit Nambiar