NCD story

Umar Shehryar

Umar Shehryar, Pakistan

You surely learn a lesson when you lose both of your grandparents to cancer that was caused due to chain smoking. Most of my childhood was spent at my maternal grandparents’ place. I still remember playing with him with a cigarette in his mouth almost all the time. We even got him a carton, because it featured the Kate Winslet poster for the blockbuster movie - Titanic. I just wish now I had not done it. Now that they are gone, I miss them and wish they were still around. It had a great impact on me. I even started a Facebook page but somehow lost my way in between to market it actively. Wherever I meet someone smoking I try my best to convince them to quit and so far I've been successful in getting 4 people to quit.