Then at just 12 years old, Agamarop Kaur realized that many of her classmates were using e-cigarettes at Canyon Middle School, California and even saw a separate smell in the school bathroom-prepared this young champion to start a tobacco campaign.
Eight years, the 20-year-old, the US-based 20-year-old has not only made an impact, but is one of the young ambassadors for the campaign on tobacco-free children. At the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, Kaur has been actively attached to various sessions as a young ambassador, which is talking about education and power of advocacy to find solutions to e-cigarette epidemic.
According to the WHO Global Tobacco epidemic report 2025, there is a growing trend to regulate the use of e-cigarettes-electronic nicotine distribution system. The number of countries expired has increased from 122 in 2022 to 122 in 2024 to 133, with a clear indication of focus on these products. However, more than 60 countries lack any rule at the end.
Director of Health Promotion Dr. Rhizigger Creche, who said that there has been significant progress in protecting people from harmful effects of tobacco, much needs to be done. The voices of the youth are important in this fight and, according to Kaur, collectively has a power for more changes.
Kaur has not only written op-ad articles, built a documentary on the young e-cigarette epidemic, but she has created a mission to educate peers about the dangers of evaporation. He continuously worked on successful campaigns in five California cities and Contra Costa County to eliminate e-cigarette sales. In 2022, he was awarded several awards for being a tireless champion for the right to breathe in smoke -free air. He obtained the 2022 Barry’s Fiske National Youth Advocate of the Year and firmly felt that the future of tobacco control was young.
Currently, a prominent in cognitive science and global health in the UCLA, Kaur has also worked in the board of directors for public health NGOs and has spoken on global panels for several organizations including the United Nations, CDC and World Heart Federation.
“We have faced many challenges as the tobacco industry challenged the bill that proposed a ban on tobacco products. But we remained and the bill eventually passed,” Kaur remembered.
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The conference in Dublin, other young ambassadors working on tobacco control, and Lisa Lu to gather the youth to protect their generations from the loss of tobacco and nicotine addiction, Lisa Lu, who is a senior at Stanford University, studying as a lawyer and who is a lawyer who is a lawyer, who is a prize for the International Youth Tobaccomia, Executive Director, Executive Officer, Office.
“The best way to promote education about tobacco and its harmful use is that you reach students in a simple and easy format. We need to speak their language so that they feel more involved,” Manik said that a decade ago, the University of Indonesia began your participation in tobacco control at the University of Indonesia, where they opposed the legislation.
22 -year -old Lisa has also played an important role in advocating a new law banning the sale of tasted tobacco products in Los Angeles County. She remembers the time when she traveled to China and conducted a survey of 857 students. Given a culture of teenage smoking, it established the IyTC and expanded the organization to 60 countries. “There are many challenges, but we need to invest in young voices and lead the fight against tobacco,” he said that the Philippines’s gene gesite junior talked about the challenges that were surrounded by friends who faced smoking. Now the focus as a coordinator of global youth voices is getting more organizations on ship to carry forward the fight against nicotine addiction.
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