The Kirkuk Medical Technical Institute organized a seminar entitled “Smoking and How to Combat It Among Youth.”
Under the patronage of the President of the Northern Technical University, Professor Dr. Alia Abbas Ali Al-Attar, and the supervision of the Dean of the Kirkuk Medical Technical Institute, Assistant Professor Dr. Lizan Medhat Mohammed, the Community Health Technologies Department, in cooperation with the Psychological and University Counseling Unit, held a scientific seminar entitled “Smoking and How to Combat It Among Youth.”
The seminar was presented by Dr. Jalank Hamid Mahmoud and Dr. Bushra Nour Al-Din Ghafour, with the participation of first-year students.
The seminar addressed the reality of smoking among youth, its causes, and its health, psychological, and social harms, in addition to ways to combat and reduce its spread.
It aimed to raise health awareness of the dangers of smoking, emphasizing the importance of continuous awareness campaigns, activating the role of the family, organizing educational campaigns, encouraging alternative activities for youth, and supporting measures and laws to reduce this phenomenon.
