Choose Your Future – Your Health is in Your Hands!

As part of the second environmental campaign “Green Pharos,” PUA’s Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Technology an intensive awareness campaign titled “Choose Your Future – Your Health is in Your Hands!” The campaign witnessed wide participation from PUA’s students and faculty members, aiming to promote health awareness and instill preventive behaviors among the university community, with a particular focus on the dangers of smoking and its negative impacts on health and the environment.
The campaign activities included a series of awareness events highlighting the severe harms of smoking, both to individual health and the university environment. It also provided practical tips for quitting smoking, emphasizing the resulting health and environmental benefits. The initiative was warmly welcomed by participants who appreciated its role in building a healthy, smoke-free university environment.
Prof. Dr. Hamdy El-Wakeel, Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs, affirmed that this campaign is part of the Faculty’s ongoing efforts to promote preventive culture and public health. He added that smoking poses a significant health and environmental challenge, stressing the importance of collaborative efforts from all university community members to combat this issue. He also praised the students’ active role in the campaign’s success, expressing hope that such initiatives would help create a generation aware of smoking risks and capable of making sound health decisions.