New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel , launched the third edition of the Tobacco Free Youth Campaign 3.0 at a hybrid event in New Delhi on Thursday.
Puniya Salila Srivastava , Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Amit Yadav, Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment; Sunita Sharma , Director General of Health Services (DGHS) and V Hekali Zhimomi , Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, were also present.
Addressing the gathering, Anupriya Patel stated that "tobacco consumption is a significant public health challenge and children are especially vulnerable to early experimentation with tobacco such as cigarettes, bidis and smokeless tobacco products often leading to lifelong addiction, c