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Tobacco consumption is a global problem. It is the single most preventable cause for adult death and disease in the world today. Tobacco is a heart breaker and a body breaker as tobacco mainly kills through heart disease and cancer. Nicotine addiction ensures life-long consumers not long-life customers. It's never too late to give it up! Stopping smoking or tobacco chewing even in middle age before having cancer or some other serious disease avoids most of the later excess risk of death due to tobacco. Aims and objectives: To assess the knowledge and plan and implement video assisted teaching programme regarding tobacco consumption and its hazards among adolescent boys. Methodology: A pre-experimental design was adopted for this study conducted on 60 adolescent boys after obtaining permission from the Principal of Rock Memorial High School, Khairtabad. The samples were selected by simple random sampling technique. Data regarding tobacco consumption and its hazards were collected through a structured knowledge questionnaire and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The study findings revealed that in pre test scores the findings were 60% had average knowledge scores and 40% of adolescent boys had below average knowledge scores whereas in the post test 3.33% had scored average knowledge scores and 96.67% of adolescent boys scored above average knowledge scores. Conclusion: The study concluded that there is an urgent need to bring about awareness and knowledge to the adolescent boys regarding tobacco consumption and its hazards to prevent themselves from getting into this habit and resulting in various health issues as well as also discouraging the younger generation from getting into the habit of smoking.

Knowledge, video assisted teaching programme, adolescent boys, tobacco consumption, hazards

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEO ASSISSTED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING TOBACCO CONSUMPTION AND ITS HAZARDS AMONG ADOLOSCENT BOYS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL, HYDERABAD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.j239-j254, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205A35.pdf

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEO ASSISSTED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING TOBACCO CONSUMPTION AND ITS HAZARDS AMONG ADOLOSCENT BOYS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL, HYDERABAD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppj239-j254, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205A35.pdf