Stop subjecting people to passive smoke and stop smoking. A poster at the Anti-Tobacco campaign to make Andhra Pradesh, a tobacco free State in Hyderabad on Sunday. Photo: G.Ramakrishna
A view of the tobacco cultivation in Mysore.The anti-tobacco activists have decried the tobacco cultivation on environmental and health grounds. Photo: M.A.Sriram
Women labourers prepare beedies, a leaf ,hand-rolled with tobacco, at a workplace on the outskirts of Agartala. within the next two years, around 10 lakh people will die because of smoking, according to studies in India. Photo: PTI
A student looks at posters put up on the eve of World No Tobacco Day, at Bangalore Medical College and Research institute.Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, estimated to kill more than five million people each year worldwide. Most of these deaths are in low and middle-income countries. Photo: K. Murali Kumar.
Oncologist, Dr.S.S.Nirni speaking at a seminar to mark the World No Tobacco Day in Gulbarga University on Wednesday. Cigarette smoke is known as one of the major risk factors leading to heart attack. More than 700 chemical additives are found in cigarettes. Photo: Arun Kulkarni
Creating awareness : Students recently participated in an anti-tobacco rally in Kancheepuram. A lighted cigarette releases thousands of chemical compounds and poisons like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide and as many as 43 carcinogens. Photo: B.Jothi Ramalingam.
'Prevent India', an NGO, along with Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT) in an unique anti-smoking campaign, made students smash a 50-foot gaint cigarette at the campus ground located at Sangareddy, Hyderabad. Photo: M.Subhash
NCC cadets of Nirmala College for Women taking out an anti-tobacco awareness rally in Coimbatore recently. By the end of this century tobacco may kill a billion people or more unless stringent action is taken. Photo: M.Periasamy
Pan Masala and Gutkhas, a chewable tobacco is within the reach of all age groups.The use of tobacco in any form is dangerous and harmful for health and there is an urgent need to spread awareness regarding the negative effects of the tobacco use. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf