Kids Playing Spoil Sport for the Tobacco Addict Grandpas

Sadananda B Naikhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1960-7753

Department of Internal Medicine, Alvas Health Centre, Mudbidri, Karnataka, India

Corresponding Author: Sadananda B Naik, Department of Internal Medicine, Alvas Health Centre, Mudbidri, Karnataka, India, Phone: +91 9845051005, e-mail: sadanandanaik2@gmail.com

How to cite this article: Naik SB. Kids Playing Spoil Sport for the Tobacco Addict Grandpas. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2023;65(3):127.

Source of support: Nil

Conflict of interest: None

Keywords: Grand children, Grand fathers, Tabacco prevention strategy.

Dear Editor,

I read with interest the letter to the editor by Aggarwal R and Dwivedi S¹ with the title “When kids played key role in tobacco cessation”.

I do agree with the authors that kids could play a crucial role in tobacco cessation programs at the family level. I would like to share my personal venture on this issue in a similar line with a slightly different mode of operandi. I bribe the grandchildren with toffies and ask them to pour water on the beedis/cigarettes kept safely at secret hideouts at home by their grandfathers. The grandfathers would find it impossible to use the wet beedis/cigarettes and at the same time find it impossible to complain to anyone. When this happens on a daily basis, the hapless grandfathers are left with no option but to quit smoking.

ORCID

Sadananda B Naik https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1960-7753

REFERENCE

1. Aggarwal R, Dwivedi S. When kids played key role in tobacco cessation. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2023;65(1):52–53. DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-11007-0065.

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