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BATS IN OUR DARK

Mr. KOGBE OLUWABAMIDELE IBRAHIM — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:34:32 +0000

Curse me not father, we’re both at fault
The path I tread today is a decision of the gods
The knowledge I hold is your ageing thought
I dwell in a place whose ken is out of mine

Where the clime spines several wide paths

Only surviving path is from other lands

When shall this clime see

The crime of the lonely path

Where journey could only be toured?

Thousands of moons ago within the clime

When the sun refused to go

The stars came along the moons

And the clime discovered the wrath cruel bats

The king ordered exit from the clime

The only path, manned by noblemen

Then a classless clan bore classes in clime

The peasants poked for fair a grateful treat

Yet not a fair treat for the drudge that fed the clime.

I have a new stage on the global scene

To voice against smoke that endangers our hearts

Cigarettes are vampires in the hands of smokers

The clan must wake against the killer stuff

The bats must not suck dry before we wake

Youth here, where are you, come save our world

From the cruel bats that kill us in our dark.

( c)Bamidele Kogbe.

Educare Trust, Nigeria.

TACKLE TOBACCO FOR OTHERS LIFE !!!!!

sameer_p_bobal@yahoo.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:00:48 +0000

i think the roots of tobacco manufacturing, simply the industries manufacturing tobacco should be banned. side by side, thinking process of common man has to be changed for the proper eradication of TOBACCO EVIL………………sameer

911lfg@gmail.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:15:59 +0000

Name of the Delegate:- Lina Kamal Hamamd
Name of the Organization:- Lina Creative & Development Group
Contact coordinates :- Mrs, Mawya M Al-Zawawi ,Al-madenah al munawarh st, heba commercial complex(134) telefax +096265548532 Mobile:- +0962795334351 Amman-Jordan ,

Tobacco - A threat to mankind

arunantonylawrence@yahoo.co.in — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:57:59 +0000

Facts about tobacco

In India there are more than 50 lakh

children ( less than 15 years ) addicted to

tobacco.

About 50 % of the cancers are due to

tobacco use .

SECONDHAND SMOKE

j.sharma.rkp@gmail.com — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:08:27 +0000

SECONDHAND SMOKE

Secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), causes lung cancer and cardiovascular disease in nonsmoking adults. Children are exposed to cigarette smoke by household members. Childhood exposure to ETS has been shown to cause asthma and to increase the number of episodes and severity of the disease. ETS exposure of very young children is also causally associated with an increased risk of bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections. For these reasons, the importance of smoking cessation extends beyond the health benefit of the smokers themselves.

Advocacy Events- GYM 2009

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:40:22 +0000

March 10, 2009: Activities held Post GYM-2009 (During 14th WCTOH)

Walkathon on Promoting Smoke Free Environment and Effective Implementation of FCTC at each country level

The youth participants joined hands to take a walk on March 10, 2009 to promote and support the smoke-free rules,. Participants walked from National Centre for the Performing Arts (the WCTOH venue) and concluded at CCI (cricket club of India). The youth participants united with the delegates of 14th WCTOH to seek their support and solidarity for smokefree environments and Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at each country level. The ‘walkathon’ was organized on the eve of Holi, a festival of colours in India. The youth participants walked through the streets of Mumbai carrying the flag of their country and distributed handouts and wrist bands on the theme of promoting smoke-free environments. The youth delegates shouted slogans supporting smoke-free environments. The delegates from various countries carried their country flags to convey global support for smoke- free environments.

Ms. Livia T. Clandorf a youth delegate from United States of America highlighted that the FCTC represents a milestone for the promotion of public health and provides new dimensions for international health cooperation. Mr. Milton Nyamadzawo a Youth For Health (Y4H) representative from Zimbabwe stated that scientific evidence has firmly established that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and there is indisputable evidence that implementing 100% smoke-free environments is the only effective way to protect people.

Corporate Leaders meet on Worksite Wellness Initiative: Promoting Smoke-free

Workplaces in India

In a unique symposium held during the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (14th WCTOH) in March 2009, corporate leaders came together to discuss worksite wellness initiatives. Twenty nine organisations were represented at the event and signed a Statement of Commitment, “The Smoke-Free Workplaces Initiative-Mumbai Declaration” for promoting smoke-free workplaces.

Global Youth Appeal for Pictorial Health Warnings

The youth representative from India on behalf of GYM-2009 submitted an appeal signed by 134 youth delegates of GYM-2009 to the Honorable Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India on March 9, 2009. The intent of organizing this campaign was to seek an international support of youth for early implementation of pictorial health warnings in India, which has been delayed for almost three years.

GYM – 2009 stall at 14th WCTOH

A stall was set up at 14th WCTOH which provided a space for interaction of GYM 2009 delegates with the main conference delegates. Various IEC materials on tobacco control developed by HRIDAY was displayed at the stall.