Pilot project for tobacco free movement

To make sure that children get rid of tobacco habit, Free India from Tobacco (FIT), a pilot project initiated by the Heart Foundation in Navi Mumbai will target government, private and municipal school students of class 7,8 and 9.  A four-week long project is scheduled to kick start from May. Role-playing sessions, presentations, case studies and practical learning will be a part of this project which will focus on ill-effects of tobacco use. Taking into consideration the problem more prevailing in rural schools, it will also cover schools in the rural areas. According to a report almost 30 per cent of the users of tobacco are kids and parents can hardly do anything to stop this habit when their kids are outside. The model project will make sure that children know the ill effects of the tobacco and how one should avoid its usage. Presentations and case-studies about people suffering from tobacco related disease will help to impart the knowledge of its ill-effects. Catching them young is surely a good idea for the students to avoid this habit also in future. If students know how harmful tobacco in early age then it well help them to avoid its usage also in future.