On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on Sunday, citizens came together for a unique protest to discourage the cancer stick. Dozens of cigarettes, collected over the course of a month, were placed in a coffin to represent a mock funeral. The event at Necklace Road was part of a cancer awareness programme organised by the Foundation for Oral Cancer, State Tobacco Control Board, the Telangana and Indian Dental Association here on Sunday. A 2K walk was also flagged off by Health Minister C. Laxma Reddy and MLC Karne Prabhakar in which about 2,000 of all age-groups participated.
Sampoo’s backing
As part of its quit-smoking campaign ‘Dhammu Untey Dhammu Odiley’, radio network 92.7 BIG FM had actor Sampoornesh Babu, who recently gave up smoking, give away prizes to winners.
