ISLAMABAD Oct 21 (TNS): Pakistan is striving hard to make the Tobacco-Smoke free its territories, particularly, Islamabad and in the ongoing campaign, National Book Foundation (NBF) Head Office in capital has been declared as a smoke-free zone.
The one day orientation session was arranged at NBF with the collaboration of CA&DD. Federal Secretary of National History & Literary Heritage Division, Engineer Aamir Hasan graced this auspicious occasion as a chief guest.
He expressed his views that we have a dream of Tobacco-Smoke Free Pakistan and for apprizing this massive task, we started it from our homes.
“Tobacco is a social sector horrible evil and we should save our generations from that by adopting concrete measures at all level as it is threaten us all,” he said.
He advised to quit tobacco and especially smoking from today once for all. “No matter how you smoke it, tobacco is very dangerous to your health and there are no safe substances in any tobacco products”, He said. He further stated that the smoking not only affect your few parts of body but also affect your entire body.
The Managing Director, National Book Foundation (NBF) Dr. Inam Ul Haq Javeid expressed his views as a key speaker there that CA&DD has taken an initiative of “Tobacco- Smoke-Free Islamabad” towards ending of Tobacco epidemic in Capital and NBF has been given an opportunity of making it Tobacco-smoke free facility zone in this drive.
He said that it is no denying fact as it is too difficult to quit the smoking or tobacco but there is no way inspite of quitting this in your own interest. He offered NBF close cooperation with any government functionary particularly with CA&DD who has been embarking upon this noble cause of making our environment smoke free.
