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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