Qatar Society launched the cancer first Awareness Campaign for school students under the title “No Smoking” in order to educate the young and make them aware of the dangers of smoking and its relationship to the injury of cancer. The campaign began in Saad bin Abi Waqas Model Independent School for Boys with a health exhibition, “My health is my window for the future” .
Dr Maha Othman from health education at QCS said: “The launch of the campaign comes in the framework of the charity efforts to spread health awareness and educating about cancer, especially among school students as part of its plan to target all the community groups, particularly young ages.
She emphasised the work charity does among younger age groups, which play a pivotal role in the eradication of the disease in the future through the promotion of healthy culture. The participation of schools is inevitable in the delivery the message.
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