September 17, 2005
"We care for you" cards released by BBS
Burning Brain Society (BBS) today released a set of
greeting cards for tobacco users. The cards are called “We care for you” cards
and are intended to be used by near and dear ones of tobacco users requesting
them to quit tobacco. The cards have been released in three designs and use the
pictures of prize winning posters made by youngsters. While one of the card show
a Yamdoot lighting a cigarette stick for a person and holding an invitation to
Yamlok in his hand, another card shows the reduced life span proportional to the
length of the burnt cigarette.
These donor cards shall be available through the volunteers of the society or
through ebay.in online shopping portal.
Mr. Hemant Goswami, chairperson of BBS while releasing the cards said that these
cards are expected to be very helpful in asking people we care about to quit
tobacco. Since at any time, over 70 percent of tobacco users want to quit so if
these people are persistently asked to quit tobacco and provided with a support
system, at least half of them are likely to quit. A pressure created by a person
close to a tobacco user can produce encouraging results.
The negative role of the state governments and Chandigarh administration was
also highlighted by the executive members of BBS. It was revealed that though
the Chandigarh administration and the Punjab government had notified the anti
smoking act but still they had not booked a single person under the act. The
Haryana government is a step ahead in its disregard as it has not even notified
the officials to act under the Cigarette and other tobacco products act 2003
informed Hemant. He further said that the civil society organizations can just
create awareness and provide support to the government but they can not do the
duty of the government. The law does not permit the administrative officials to
choose between enforcing a law or not, they are duty bound to enforce all the
provisions; the officials who are not following the letter of the law are
committing an offence of deliberately omitting to perform their duty and this is
a criminal offence under the IPC for which BBS shall shortly approach the lawful
authorities, Mr. Goswami said.
These are donor cards. 3 packs of
10 cards each (30 cards) are available for Rs. 300/- (Plus courier charges of Rs.
50/-). Please send your request for the cards to the below mentioned address
with a demand draft in the name of "Burning Brain Society" payable at Chandigarh.
burningbrain.org