World No Tobacco Day Event Held At AMU

Aligarh, June 2 (TNA) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) faculty members and students are calling attention to hazards of using tobacco products and how the tobacco industry is adding unnecessary pressure to scarce resources and fragile ecosystems through ‘World No Tobacco Day’ awareness programmes on the theme, ‘Tobacco - Threat to our Environment’.

At one such awareness camp on ‘Hazards of Tobacco on Individual and the Environment’ held at the OPD of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT), Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) to observe the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ and the nation-wide, ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’; Prof Rakesh Bhargava, Dean, Faculty of Medicine raised concern on the increasing use of tobacco and urged people to quit tobacco consumption. He spok to over 200 patients and their attendants at the camp.