• Sonia Rani
• Nancy thakur
• Mohit sharma

INTRODUCTION:-Tobacco is an agricultural product derived from the leaves of several species of Nicotina Plants. When combined with nicotina tartrate, tobacco becomes one of the most commonly abused recreational drugs. Tobacco is a serious threat to health and a proven killer and ranks second as a cause of death in the world taking its toll by killing some 5 million people globally. Cigarette smoking among adolescents remains a major public health concern given the frequent persistence of this behavior in to adulthood (Colditz & Hunter 2000). An estimated 150 million adolescent's worldwide use tobacco. Approximately half of the young smokers will die of tobacco related diseases in later life. WHO estimates that unless current smoking pattern is reversed, tobacco will be responsible for 10 million deaths per year, by the decade 2020-2030, with 70% of them occurring in developing countries (WHO 2007, 2.) Smoking harms nearly every organs ofthe body and diminishes a person ' s overall health and one of the leading cause of cancer. Teenagers are attracted by the smoke and the smoking style, which tempts them to smoke. Friends and colleagues also encourage non-smokers, to smoke just once. They are also told that there are no harmful second-hand smoke effects. Smoking in movies is the main reason for adolescents acquiring this habit concerned about the health. The present paper is on a study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding ill effects of smoking among high school students of Roza, Yakubpur,in Greater Noida

SMOKING AND TOBACCO- AN EVIL FOR ADOLSCENTS

"SMOKING AND TOBACCO- AN EVIL FOR ADOLSCENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.c305-c307, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107308.pdf

"SMOKING AND TOBACCO- AN EVIL FOR ADOLSCENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppc305-c307, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107308.pdf