Tobacco and Alcohol Awareness

[VChangeU]

Health is not just about hospitals, X-rays, CT/MRI scans and medicines. Health is about quality of life and living. It leaves nobody indifferent. Health is everybody's concern. One’s health is in one’s own hands. At the dawn of the next century we have to ensure that health issues emerge and remain as a major area of national and international concern and action.
Tobacco kills more than 4 million people every year. By 2030, tobacco will kill 10 million people per year, over seventy percent in the developing world. There is nothing inevitable about this - we don't have to helplessly count the dead. As we go from one century to the next taking with us astounding gains in medicine and science, one story that stands woefully neglected is the tobacco story.

The globalisation of tobacco trade and marketing represents a real challenge to us in curbing the evils of tobacco. As tobacco industry’s documents make it clear, this industry acts as a global force. This necessitates the need for public health to cross borders, and itself serve as a global force.
Alcoholism can lead people into serious troubles, and be physiologically and psychologically destructive. Currently alcohol use is involved in half of all crimes, murders, accidental deaths, child abuses and neglect and suicides. There are also many health problems associated with alcoholism such as brain damage, cancer, heart diseases, diseases of the liver, etc.
To us, a person who supports alcohol and buys alcohol is a person that supports crime, child abuse and violence.

We at VChangeU help young people by educating them what tobacco and alcohol really are, how occasional tobacco and alcohol consumption can lead to regular use and then to addiction that can wreak havoc with health and well-being of entire family. Through school-based education programs and public information programs on tobacco, alcohol and drugs we would like to keep the young generation away from these activities for lifetime.

Objectives
Working towards de-addiction of Tobacco and Alcohol use.
Preventing Tobacco and Alcohol use among Young People.
Creating awareness among people about the harm of Smoking, Chewing Tobacco and Alcohol on Health.
Creation of Tobacco and Alcohol awareness posters for display in schools, Colleges, Public and Private Organisations.
Presentations in Schools, Colleges, Public and Private Organisations.
Workshops and Seminars in Urban and Rural areas.
Animated Short Films and Documentaries.
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[roggers]

We need more efforts in this direction, that's for sure, tobacco and alcohol are serious social problems.

[Crystal86]

I'm just amazed with how people are still pretty stubborn with the consumption of these stuff. Tobacco's and alcohol's health risks is something not new and these people know that they're putting their health at stake.