Deadly Addiction...

Akshay (name changed ) was the only son of a two successful doctors practicing in the nearby locality .Being born and brought up in a well-to-do family he had pretty much stable childhood , and grew up admiring his parents and setting them as role model. After graduating from High school he enrolled into the best coaching class of the city to prepare for the medical entrance exam. There he met his soon to be best friend Vineet (name changed). It started off a casual friendship but soon he was drawn into chivalrous lifestyle of Vineet of Alcohol, Cigerattes and drugs.Time flew and the results of the Entrance exam came, once upon a time topper had failed in the exam. His parents were stunned, they took him to a psychatriast where he was diagonsed with addiction of Drugs, and was immidiately admitted into the Rehab centre. Akshay represents around 30% of our Indian teenage population who, everyyear end up in this vicious cycle of narcotics.

A hero entering college holding a cigeratte in his mouth, fog of smoke covering his face and as soon as the fog is lifted and his face is visible the heroine and most of the female students of the college goes aww. Thats how Bollywood portrays college life to the young minds. Rancho could not propose Priya when he was sober and normal, but after getting drunk he gets confidence to climb up one floor and enter her room in the middle of the night and propose her for marraige. That is how Bollywood portrays alcohol. A young 15-16 year old boy fantsizes his college life being drunk with friends, partying day and night and spending hours smoking cigerrate at a chai sutta stall.
Every year 10 million patients are detected of lung cancer, and the number is growing at 10% per annum. In USA when anti tobacco activists pressurised the Government to increase the cess on sale of tobacco products, fat pay checks of corporate donations made some Government spokesperson to spill out some “Economic apprehension” against doing that.
No doubt Alcohol is integral part of our culture, even tobacco too where most stoners refer to photos of Lord Shiva smoking weed, it doesnt mean you end up being an alcoholic and damage your liver. And for those who refer to Lord shiva theory, after Grihasthashram our culture and Veda had prescribed going into forests giving up all the luxuries of life and medidating the rest of the period.