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T-7, 1st Floor,
Green Park Extension,
New Delhi (India)– 110 016
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C-1/52, 3rd Floor,
Safdarjung Development Area
New Delhi-110 016, India
Phone: 91-11-26850342, 41031191
Fax: 91-11-26850331
info@hriday-shan.org
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WORLD
NO TOBACCO DAY 2003
On the eve of World No Tobacco
Day, school students of Delhi,
who are involved in activities
of organisation: HRIDAY-SHAN
, met the Honourable Health
Minister of India, on May 30,
2003 with over 50000 signatures
collected by them in support
of the theme for WNTD, 2003.
These students have been working
for the last two months on sensitizing
their peer group, parents and
teachers on issues related to
tobacco control and also emphasized
on how the film and fashion
world is contributing to promoting
tobacco use. As a result of
this sensitization programme,
they successfully formed three
activist groups: SAT (Students
Against Tobacco), Parents Against
Tobacco (PAT) and Teachers Against
Tobacco (TAT). They motivated
these three groups to write
appeals supporting the WNTD
theme this year and then circulated
these appeals among the community
members to disseminate awareness
about the issue and collect
signatures. In Delhi, 96 schools
(60 private and 36 public) and
8 colleges participated in this
signature campaign. |
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Students
Displaying Anti-Tobacco Posters
On The Occasion Of World No
Tobacco Day 2003 |
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Students were also trained for
media advocacy by HRIDAY-SHAN during
their involvement in this anti-tobacco
campaign. The students used the
learnt knowledge and skills by writing
letters to various film stars, film
directors, script writers and lyric
writers , requesting them to ensure
that our films become free from
tobacco. They also wrote to Central
Board for Film Certification requesting
them to strictly enforce the guidelines
while issuing certificates to the
films to censor, tobacco promoting
scenes.
Student representatives participated
in a brainstorming session wherein
they discussed various issues related
with influence of projecting tobacco
use in films and fashion world.
They discussed on the suggested
guidelines of Central Board of Film
Certification regarding certification
of films. They discussed tobacco
industry's tactics that form the
basis of these false projections.
Subsequent to this brainstorming
session students formulated a list
of recommendations that they submitted
to the Honourable Health Minister
along with an appeal to ensure that
our film and fashion world can be
free from tobacco projections.
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Honourable Health Minister
of India, Mrs. Sushma Swaraj
commended the students for
their efforts. She encouraged
these young tobacco control
activists and guided them
to assist the Government
in ensuring that the Indian
Tobacco Control Act, 2003,
becomes effectively enforced.
This student
delegation presented their
work on anti-tobacco campaign
to the Honourable President
of India on June 2, 2003
and submitted an appeal
requesting the Honourable
President of India to lead
India to the status of a
Tobacco Free Society. The
President congratulated
the students for their efforts
and encouraged them to further
expand their anti-tobacco
movement to help others.
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Students
discussing their efforts towards
tobacco control with honourable
health minister Smt. Sushma
Swaraj
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The President said that
parents who smoked at home affected
their children both as role models
and as sources of passive smoking.
He said it was important to persuade
parents, especially fathers, to
give up tobacco. Children must persuade
their parents to do so and they
should be helped in this task by
teachers and health professionals.
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The President also shared
his vision of a developed
nation where the problem of
poverty would be alleviated.
He wanted school children
to catalyse social transformation
through activities like educating
uneducated persons and planting
trees. Such constructive activities
would contribute to sustainable
development, he said, while
also keeping the mind away
from harmful substances like
tobacco.
The students also presented
to the President, a Student
Charter on the Health of Our
Land (SCHOOL), in which they
profiled their generation's
perspective on issues like,
safe drinking water, healthy
diets, promotion of physical
activity, protection of environment,
avoidance of tobacco, minimization
of violence and promotion
of peace. The President appreciated
their vision and asked them
to act with conviction and
commitment for the attainment
of those goals.
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Student
delegation presents their work
on anti tobacco campaign to
the honorable president of India
on June 2, 2003. |
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Of India Sharing His Vision Of
A Developed Nation With Students |
President
Of India Discussing With Students,
The Effects Of Passive Smoking |
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