Stop Smoking Start Living !

I have always failed to understand why people smoke ! why ? . It destroys the persons personality for me ‘literally’ why would you opt to be a stinking smoke engine ?. Well to each his own then , a recent survey was carried out on smoking and its effects . There are more than 25 million smokers in the country out of which 28 per cent are youngsters. The number of youths taking up smoking every day in the country is also increasing at an alarming rate of 1,200. These facts were revealed by Executive Coordinator, The Network for Consumer Protection, Dr Talib Lashari at a news conference here on Friday. Dr Lashari announced a country-wide advocacy and awareness campaign for introducing packing reforms regarding tobacco control in the country under the name ‘Policy Advocacy and Stakeholder Awareness Building for Packaging Reforms to Reduce Demand for Cigarettes in Pakistan’.

He said an estimated 100,000 smokers died annually from tobacco-related illnesses in the country. Talking about the production of cigarettes, he said, “more than 55.3 billion cigarettes are produced every year in the country”.

In Pakistan, about 50 per cent of the population is illiterate, and among them the ratio of smokers is very high, Dr Lashari said, adding that written warnings had very little impact on the decision of these people regarding smoking.

In this context, pictorial warnings were advised in the FCTC to give a clear message to smokers as well as non-smokers about the harmful effects of smoking. In this regard, 42 picture-based cigarette warnings were prepared for the 25-member countries including Pakistan.

I think this a great step towards health awareness. Smokers should be warned of the health risks of smoking . What is more disturbing is that smokers are more of a health risk for fellow non smokers inhaling all the fumes .Passive smoking has been known to be more harmful then smoking itself .
Thereby smokers don’t only put them selves on the risk of being easily effected by diseases but also increase the risks for others. This is why most of the countries have banned publicly smoking and separate areas in restaurants buses and other spots have been allotted.

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  4. i think it makes the personality.. lol

  5. Yea right harris ! lung cancer = great personality *thumbs up*

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  7. i dont smoke i hate it but still i think like that.. lol
    whether they smoke or not they have to die by any means so why dont they live their life with a style and die.. :)

  8. illetrate people smoking still makes some logic that may be they are not aware of the fatal consequences that they may have to suffer but educated people smoking uhh thats ridiculous
    Please for heaven sake ALL THE SMOKERS if not for yourself atleast for your family STOP SMOKING

  9. Sana its an amazing article i wish all smokers take it seriously and get out of this deadly habbit

  10. Nice article Sana and I really like these pictorial warnings. However, just as you don’t understand y do people smoke..I don’t understand why these pictorial warnings most of the time have to be in English. If we care about both the educated as well as uneducated smokers equally then we should have these warnings in our native languages as well so as to get the message across to a greater number of people.

  11. @ sana : thank you for appreciating ! and am glad there are still people out there who regard smoking as health hazard and not a bizarre fashion statement !
    @ fariha ! Pictorial warnings will be through pictures to make both it understandable to both educated and uneducated. I think they should ban smoking from educational institutes also and public transports. :) and I hope we all to take certain steps towards awareness . May be printing some banners in urdu ?:)

    @ hariss : TRUE TRUE we are all suppose to die anyway but I would rather die a normal death then die of lung cancer and go through chemotherapy n shed all my hair that would be very stylish nai ?:p ! so i wan to die with my hair and other body parts intact and cancer free!! there are other cancer free styles in the market you can adopt !

  12. @Sana

    I was thinking about the same :) I can get the banners designed but let me find out someone who can help us putting them on different places…placing them on the web won’t really of help.

  13. @ fariha ! great minds think alike :p lol sure am all up to help in, btw i left some comments on ur site , email me if u need anythin.. I am in khi so cab pretty much do sometin here !:) Good am lovin it :)

  14. ha ha ok ill check them out.. ;)
    upload that picture of iran girls in this article..

  15. I am glad to read this post. As a female, smoking is more harmful to me than it is for men.

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