THE UNIVERSITY OF BASRA ORGANIZES AN AWARENESS WORKSHOP ENTITLED “BREAKING THE SMOKING HABIT AND COMBATING THE WIDESPREAD PHENOMENON AMONG YOUTH”

On Monday 13/11/2023, the Educational Guidance and Psychological Guidance Unit at the College of Administration and Economics at the University of Basrah, in cooperation with the Department of Management Information Systems, organized an awareness-raising seminar entitled (Breaking the smoking habit and combating the widespread phenomenon among young people and identifying the harms and ways to get rid of them), in which Dr. Qusay Abd aLatif Al-Abadi. Lectured.
The workshop included presenting several topics, the most important of which were breaking the smoking habit and getting rid of it permanently for university students, considering it an uncivilized phenomenon and inappropriate for public taste on the one hand, and physical and psychological health on the other hand, stressing that there is great interest in the field of quitting the smoking habit, which is being carried out by the Basrah Medical Association.
The workshop aimed to continue raising awareness about smoking products and the harm they cause to the environment.
In conclusion, the seminar recommended the necessity of banning smoking in public places and designing appropriate programs to enhance health education through advertising and awareness of the harms of smoking and its consequences, and working to support various media outlets, for their major role in spreading awareness among people.