On October 1st, 2014 Anna Grabovska, the assistant professor of the Department of Civil Law and Process, visited secondary school N46 (Kyiv) where she conducted lecture on the theme “The Truth About Smoking”.
The purpose of the meeting was to inform the young generation about the harmfulness of smoking, introduce the chemical composition of tobacco smoke and educate young people in a negative attitude towards bad habits. While this lecture Anna Grabovska stressed that today smoking is like epidemic in Ukraine, because Ukraine ranks seventh from the bottom of the 132 countries in the world by prevalence of this bad habit. In our country smokes two thirds of males and one in five females. And it is twice as much as in the civilized society. The lesson of health lasted almost an hour, however pupils did not feel melancholy because Anna Grabovska showed them videos and photos of the effects of cigarettes together with theoretical part of the harmfulness of smoking. Pupils were also impressed by statistics because Ukraine ranks second in the world by smoking.