New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel, launched the third edition of the Tobacco Free Youth Campaign 3.0 at a hybrid event in New Delhi on Thursday.

Puniya Salila Srivastava, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Amit Yadav, Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment; Sunita Sharma, Director General of Health Services (DGHS) and V Hekali Zhimomi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, were also present.

Addressing the gathering, Anupriya Patel stated that "tobacco consumption is a significant public health challenge and children are especially vulnerable to early experimentation with tobacco such as cigarettes, bidis and smokeless tobacco...