In Karachay-Cherkessia, Youth Forum participants propose to ban advertising of alcohol and cigarettes

On March 21, about 200 participants of the forum of senior pupils from the school educational institutions of Karachay-Cherkessia, made a statement urging the authorities to prohibit direct and indirect advertising of tobacco and alcohol products in the media.

"The participants of the forum of senior pupils from the school educational institutions of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) urged their counterparts to give up bad habits, and proposed the institutions of the state executive power to strength control over dissemination of negative information on the Internet and to prohibit direct and indirect advertising of tobacco and alcohol products in the media," reports the press service of the leader of Karachay-Cherkessia.

In their statement, young people emphasized that schools represent centres of efforts to prevent pupils' addiction to harmful and bad habits. The schools have all potential and resources for that preventing efforts, reports the official website of the leader and the government of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Within the forum, dedicated to the prevention and overcoming of the pupils' addiction to smoking, alcohol and drug use, schoolchildren took part in the All-Russian online lesson "I have the right to know", dedicated to the malign influence of drugs on human health, the "Interfax" reports.