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News Title Girls exhorted to reject smokers
News Contents The Kannur-based Malabar Cancer Care Society (MCCS) is not involved in marriage counselling, but it has launched a campaign to create anti-tobacco awareness among girls that highlights the message that young men who are in the habit of smoking and tobacco using are not only facing health hazards but are also at risk of being rebuffed. The �No-Tobacco' Day on May 31 marked the launch of this new campaign by the MCCS that has been organising various programmes over the past two decades to spread the anti-tobacco message. This time, the MCCS has mobilised school- going girls and their mothers to take a pledge that they would rebuff marriage proposals from smokers or tobacco users. Positive response The response from the participants of the campaign was positive as they were told how a smoker in a household was causing health problems from passive smoking to other members of the family, MCCS president D. Krishnanadha Pai said. So the participants unanimously took the oath that smokers would not be considered for marriage, he said. Manjusha Madhu, a class 10 student of the Kunhimangalam Higher Secondary School here, was among the participants in the campaign session. She said the campaign was an extension of the anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol drive that had been launched in Kunhimangalam over the past two months. She was one of the 120-odd volunteers that participated in the door-to-door campaign there. �We will continue to urge people to reject marriage proposals from smokers,� she said. Ashwathi Damodaran, a class IX student of the same school and also a participant, said the response from her friends to the campaign was positive. More such activities should be launched with the support of the MCCS, she added. Theme Mr. Pai said girls and women had been involved in the campaign because the theme of the World No-Tobacco Day- 2010 was �gender and tobacco with emphasis on marketing to women'. He said 1.2 crore women use tobacco in the country, out of which 54 lakh are smokers and 65 lakh non-smoking tobacco users. ---The hindu
 




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