studies have highlighted how vulnerable sections of the society, particularly children get trapped into drugs and Tobacco products.

They copy the screen acts of their favourite stars. Media glamorisation and imagery is having an ill-effect on children as they are engaging in juvenile delinquency due to their habit of intoxication.

NO WARNING DURING TOBACCO & PRODUCTS DEPICTION ON OTT IS VIOLATION OF TOBACCO CONTROL LAW & THREAT TO THE YOUNG GROUP OF PEOPLE

In India, it is compulsory to have a statutory warning about the ill effects of tobacco use during the on-screen portrayal of the use of tobacco in film and TV programs However, a recent study found that many popular shows on most online streaming platforms did not have any tobacco Disclaimers

Health ministry’s strong anti-tobacco law – Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003 – does not yet apply to the content shown on OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, SonyLiv and Disney+ Hotstar.

Quotes for smoking free Healthy life

The true face of Smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray-David Byrne

Giving up tobacco is the easiest thing in the World-Mark Twain

Tobacco kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life-Brooke Shield

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine-George Prentice

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop – no ifs, ands or butts-Edith Zittler

Cigarettes are killers traveling in packs.

Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age-Tom Frieden

Cigarette: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between.

If we lose the battle against tobacco, we will lose the war against cancer

Burn calories, not cigarettes. Kick the butt – you can work out and get a better one.

Smoking cigarettes is like paying to have your life cut shorter – the most foolish thing anyone can ever do.

Smoking does not make you a KILLER per se, but your heart will drown in GUILT if second hand smoke gave someone in your own family a life-threatening disease

Replacing the smoke on your face with a smile today will replace illness in your life with happiness tomorrow.

ANTI TOBACCO SLOGANS

Eliminate tobacco from your life before it kills you!
We need to burn calories daily, not tobacco!
If you can’t stop smoking, cancer will.
Smoking is like paying someone to kill you. They’re rich; you’re dead.
Smoking leaves an unseen scar. It fills your insides with toxins and tar.
Smoking reduces your weight.
Smoking thrills, but it also kills.
Smoking will be a crime in time.
Smoking.. a grave mistake.
Sometimes quitters do win.
Stop… you are burning your life flower.
Take a better route; put that smoke out.
Tar the roads; not your lungs.
Replace your cigarettes with a glass of juice daily.
Eliminate smoking to bring smile to many faces in your life.
Eliminate smoking and be the real hero of your family.
Quit smoking today to get happiness tomorrow