Awareness programme
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 01 2018:
Phundrei Bn of 9 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarter IGAR (South) organised awareness programmes across villages and schools in Thoubal district to mark the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, celebrated globally on May 31 .
A large number of school children, village members and local youth attended the awareness programme.
Various topics including health hazards of tobacco, smoking, effects of tobacco chewing, linkage of tobacco consumption to various types of cancers and ways for rehabilitation were covered in the lecture conducted by the Company Commanders and Regimental Medical Officers of the unit.
Posters, pamphlets and handouts were distributed during the programme.