Anti Tobacco day

Posted in alayam on 5/29/06

May 31st Anti Tobacco Day............

I do not know the statistics about the smokers in the world, neither do i know about the chemical substances present in it that causes harm to the human beings. The only thing i know is that whenever i pass a smoking guy, i frown and sometimes tend to close my nose. I always wonder how do smokers bear that smell. I have a few friends, who are chain smokers and the surprising thing is that everbody says he wants to quit but unable to do so. Few people had reduced the number by a considerable margin. The ban on smoking created a lot of flutter in the last year. The law regarding the ban on smoking in Television and Movies did not get that much response from the media that it should have exactly got. It would have been better if the Government would have planned for a total ban on the manufacturing and sale of Tobaccos. Though this cannot be acheived completely, this will reduce the cigarette consumption to a large extent. Banning this can be done slowly and not in a single day. Bhutan is a country that has totally banned smoking. Though its a small country and implementing laws are much easier than the doing it in large country like out India, there have been no visible steps taken by the government before the last year's act. The most surprising part in the last year's act is that, the tobacco manufacturer's never raised any opposition against this act. Did they know that though this law will come into force, they still can go on with their selling???Lets all smokers pledge to quit smoking......