ISLAMABAD: Health experts on Sunday stressed the need for educating society about the negative effects of tobacco use as E-cigarettes and Nicotine pouches has a new rising trend among country youngsters which was becoming health catastrophe. A Liver specialist Dr Murtaza Kazmi while talking to a state news channel, urged the media celebrities to discourage these advertisements and raise awareness on harms of nicotine, E-cigarettes, smoking, and adverse impacts of tobacco products on youngsters’ mental health. Media platforms are the main key to support civil society awareness campaigns which would discourage the sales, promotion and advertisement of the emerging products to safe precious youth’s lives, he told. He lamented that tobacco industry has been using innovative tactics for youngsters to sell its products everywhere, adding, concerned authorities should impose an immediate ban on the new sale trends of nicotine pouches and protect the youth from the lung cancer. DNA
