SMOKING IS A HEALTH HAZARD

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WHAT IS SMOKING

Smoking is defined as the act of smelling or inhaling the smoke of a substance, mostly tobacco. The most common being cultural reasons or peer pressure. Smoking also is Hurting Yourself

REASONS FOR SMOKING

Cigarette smoking as a way of problems dealing.
o Individuals view smoking as a companion to their life. o People also feel smoking helps them deal with daily stress, depressive situations, anger, frustrations, low confidence, weight gain, and lethargy. o Teen Smokers feel it is a style statement as it would boost their personality. o Nicotine gives satisfaction and contentment to smokers, as it gives a sensation of goodness. o In short, they feel that smoking helps them to forget and ease their problems.

INGREDIENTS OF CIGARETTE
o Most of the ingredients used in cigarette making are hazardous and could damage different parts of human body.

EFFECTS OF SMOKING
o Two of the most essential organs of the human body effected due to smoking are Heart and Lungs.

o Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers, and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke / passive smoking.
o If a pregnant woman is exposed to passive smoking, may observe low birth weight of baby. o Among infants, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. It may also cause coughing and wheezing and worsens asthma. o Smoking squeezes and restricts the blood vessels to the skin. o Smokers lose the ability to smell and taste. There are high chances of smokers facing from mouth and gums cancer.

SOME FACTS : EFFECT OF SMOKING IN INDIA

o In India, about 900,000 Indians a year die from smoking-related diseases that are nearly one in 10 of all deaths .

o Nearly 6 lakh people die from bidi-smoking every year.

o There is one tobacco related death every 8 seconds. o India may loose 2.5 million people every year by 2025, due to tobacco consumption, which may also prove as a hurdle in economic growth of the country. o Overall, smoking in India causes around 38% of deaths from TB, 31% of deaths from other respiratory causes, around 33% of deaths from cancer, and 20% of deaths from heart attacks or strokes.

Indian men aged between 30-69: Number of deaths studied and smoker V/S nonsmoker death %
Underlying fatal disease TB Respiratory disease Deaths studied, n 3119 3487 Smokers (%) 66 60
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Stroke
Heart disease Cancers All diseases

2200
5409 2248 25 290

53
52 59 55

Source : Global Health Research

Indian women aged between 30-69: Number of deaths studied and smoker v/s nonsmoker death %
Underlying fatal disease TB Respiratory disease Deaths studied, n 1363 2288 Smokers (%) 13 14
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Stroke
Heart disease Cancers All diseases

1597
2473 2153 16 386

8
7 8 9

Source : Global Health Research

BAN ON SMOKING
o There are many countries throughout the world who have implemented ban on smoking completely or in public places.

o India implemented ban on smoking in public places on October2 2008, with terms and conditions for places allowed for smoking and places not allowed for smoking. Also anybody violating the law will be charged a fine of Rs.200/o Government should also take strict actions on implementing the ban of Hookah parlours, which is attracting more young generation.
o Chandigarh (India) became the first city to become Smoke-free. o Ban on Smoking can make the environment also pollution free.

APPEAL FOR NO SMOKING

o Taking the risk of smoking seriously. o Four key messages, it is bigger risk than thought, no safe smoking, smoking kills and stopping works. o If this is taken seriously as an avoidable cause of death, it's very obvious what can be done. o More than half of the deaths from smoking in India are in illiterate adults. o It is more important to protect peoples health than to protect businesses.

o Restrict the active smokers in society to create adverse effect on rest of the society.
o As responsible human being at first they should quit smoking.

THANK YOU !