Anti-tobacco day

Today was the World No-Tobacco Day. A rally followed by a conference were organised by the Karnataka Cancer Society.

This walk's goal was to warn the population about the tobacco risks. The problem was that the march took principally place in little streets. This may suggest that the instigators wanted to aim the lower population class. The march started in  the Hallada Ground in Malleshwaram.

The rally

The procession was mostly composed by women. They were nurse and dentist students. The walk lasted 30 minutes, and ended in a school: Thirumala Vidyanikethan.

The conference took place in the school. There was the organisation comity, partners, a police officer and guests on the stage. They wanted to transmit one message: spread the awareness of the tobacco risks.
Bangalore's people are smoking or chewing tobacco. The population doesn't know tobacco risks, that's why there is a major danger. There are more chewers than smokers, that's why there's more mouth than throat cancers.  Moreover, some people don't even know that there's tobacco in the material they chew.

A surgeon also talked about the bad knowledge of the medical network. Many patients with a minor cancer problem are misguided: an easily treatable tumour can turn into a dangerous one because of this misunderstanding of the medical system.

There's a law which forbids smoking in public structures. The policeman said that the police forces would try to be more efficient on punishing the people who don't respect it.

Conference's stage