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Aniruddha Live(FB)-World No Tobacco Day,2020

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The following is the Subject matter of my live session on Facebook. Link for the live session:  https://www.facebook.com/thesilentexpress/videos/580009229589052/ Talk on No Tobacco Day: Good Evening friends. Today is World No Tobacco Day. While most of us are well aware about the harm that tobacco consumption causes to our society there’s a whole new challenge that is threatening of grievous consequences. It is now an open secret that the tobacco producers whose products result in more than 8 million deaths per year are now focussed on targeting the youth to replace their dead customer base. There are two definite advantage of this:   The younger you get them addicted, the longer they consume-so basically you have a long term potential customer. The youth are easier to manipulate, so easier customer base to acquire. Tactics of marketing such as parties and concerts hosted by the tobacco and related industries, e-cigarette flavours that attract youth like bubble-...