According to the World Health Organization more than half billion young people are being targeted by the tobacco companies as they associating smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles.

The World Health Organization explains that tobacco companies are just cashing the innocence of young people who are greatly influenced by attractive advertising and have begun to reckon smoking a must for an elegant lifestyle. W.H.O is going to mark World No Tobacco Day on Saturday.

Shigeru Omi, W.H.O’s regional director for the Western Pacific states that there is a flood of messages through billboards, newspaper, radio and television ads and all of them intend to befool young people to try their first cigarette.

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London – It is more probable that smokers will quit the hazardous habit if they are informed about the age of their lungs, a study identified on Friday.

In the lung age concept, the age of the lungs is measured by comparing the lungs of the smoker to a healthy person’s age whose lungs function as same as that of the smoker’s. This has helped patients to understand about the ill effects of smoking effectively, researchers had previously found.

But the information is also useful in persuading smokers to quit the habit, said Gary Parkes, who led the study that was published in the British Medical Journal. Gary Parkes is a family physician in Hertfordshire outside London.

“Revealing to the smokers of their lung age can considerably increase the probability of quitting the habit,” Gary Parkes and his team wrote.

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