Nirni Cancer Foundation, Hyderabad will be organising No Tobacco awareness campaign and cancer screening camp in Kalaburagi, Bidar and Raichur districts to mark the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ on May 31.
Chairman of the foundation and oncologist S.S. Nirni addressing to the presspersons in Kalaburagi on Friday said that the theme of the 2015 campaign is ‘Stop Illicit Trade of Tobacco Products’.
Dr. Nirni said round 6 million people, suffering from oral cancer, most of who acquire the disease of tobacco consumption would die worldwide every year. In India, one person dies every minute from oral cancer.
According to Dr. Nirni, every eight seconds, one person dies from cancer and about one in every ten dies from smoking-related disease globally. He added that around one lakh youths worldwide start smoking every day.
Dr. Nirni warned that the use of tobacco could also cause cancer affecting the intestine, kidneys and lungs. He said people should come forward to give up the habit voluntarily.
The foundation has been organising awareness camps related to Breast Cancer and No Tobacco awareness camps in the last six years in education institutions and rural parts of the Hyderabad Karnataka region.
