Children in Smoking trap-Indian Express-Inner Dawn Counsellor Kala Balasubramanians views featured
Tobacco has been given multiple avatars to make it attractive to different age groups. Today children and adolescents start smoking very early in the form of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, hukkah, gutka etc. e-cigarettes and hukkas have flavours that are very attractive to children and adolescents. Floral, fruit, chocolate etc makes it attractive. The gutka packets are made very colourful and attractive. Hukkas and e-cigarettes (which have been popularized as better alternatives to cigarettes) have been found to contain flavours that cause irreversible damage to lungs called pop-corn lungs.
Inner Dawn Counsellor Kala Balasubramanian’s views featured in The New Indian Express of 31-May-17
