Webinar

Webcast on Tobacco Control

7th September, 2017
05:14 PM
Webcast on Tobacco Control

Overview

This video is based on Tobacco control and how is it possible to make "Tobacco Free India". Further it explains ways of educating people through pictorial warning that is either through text/visual/audio or audio-visual. This video also focus on smoking and tobacco consumption, how visual warnings in the cigarette packets can be helpful for new users of cigarette, why it is difficult to stop smoking and what are the ways of stopping it in any individual or patient. Later in the video, it explains about nicotin, its use, what harm it does to our body, and different types of nicotin intake. We also get to know social taboos involved in these things, uses of nicotin gum and its problems to the body, other options that can be used instead of tobacco and how cancer disease are related with the tobacco and cigarette consumption.

  Speakers

Dr. Manu Mathur

Dr. Manu Mathur

Senior Research Scientist and Associate Professor at Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi.


Dr. V K Monga

Dr. V K Monga

General Physician at Dr Monga Clinic in Krishna Nagar, Delhi.


Dr. KK Aggarwal

Dr. KK Aggarwal

President Heart Care Foundation of India and Group Editor in Chief MEDtalks