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No Smoking Day

If you buy a packet of cigarettes, you'll see the warning “tobacco causes cancer”. But sadly, people ignore this. The culture of smoking is now widely prevalent among youth. Research tells that more than 70 Carcinogenic (Cancer Causing) chemicals present in tobacco and smoking can cause serious health hazards such as Emphysema, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), heart attack, strokes premature death and various types of cancers of the throat, lungs and colon.

No smoking day is an annual health awareness day started in 1984 in the United Kingdom to help smokers to quit smoking. Every year it is celebrated on the second Wednesday of March to raise awareness about the health hazard of smoking.