On 31st may each year WHO celebrates world no tobacco day, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce consumption. Tobacco use is the second cause of death globally ( after Hypertension) and is currently responsible for killing one in 10 adults worldwide. The World Health Assembly created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal effects. It provides an opportunity to highlight specific tobacco control messages and to promote adherence to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco use is the number one preventable epidemic that the health community faces.
Quitting tobacco :
Quitting tobacco is not easy as tobacco dependence is a cluster of behavioural, cognitive and physiological phenomena. Very few tobacco users can successfully quit the habit in their first attempt. But the evidence is strong that it can be done. From quit lines to counselling to prescription medicines, there are numerous effective ways to quit.
Tabacco Free Initiative
Do you know?
All types of tobacco products including:
Cigerattes, Bidis, Kreteks, Cheroots, pipes, cigars, hookahs Gul, Khaini, Gutka, Jarda, betel quid with tobacco, Tobacco with paan Tobacco paste for gum and teeth
Smoking Causes :
| Cancers like lung cancer, oral cancer, kidney cancer and stomach cancer. Lung diseases like bronchitis, asthma, coughing and increased risk of TB. Heart diseases like ischaemic heart disease, stroke. Impotency and infertility in men and women Preterm delivery, Stillbirth, Low birth weight and Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). What You Can do ? Avoid experimenting with tobacco Exposure to Second-hand Smoke (SHS) If you are a tobacco user ask your nearby health worker or doctor about the way to quit tobacco use. Your determination for keeping healthy is enough for quitting the dangerous habit. | |||
Smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, beedi, cigar or hookah and the smoke exhaled by the smoker are as harmful as smoking itself.
Second-hand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemicals It increases the risks of cancer and heart & chest diseases like bronchitis and pneumonia. It hampers the growth of the baby in the mother’s womb It causes asthma and ear infection in children. Children, pregnant women and older people are most vulnerable.
There is no level of safe exposure to second-hand smoke.
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What you can to do?
You can protect yourself and your loved ones by:
Making your home and car smoke-free. Asking people not to smoke around you and your children. Teaching children to stay away from smoke. Remind the smokers about the provisions of smoke-free laws Choosing restaurants and other businesses that are smoke-free. If your spouse or partner smokes, have him or her refrain from smoking indoors.
Chewing tobacco causes
Oral and throat cancers Increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases Decomposing and decaying teeth Increased risk of women to give still birth and low birth-weight babies Bad breadth Bad habit of spitting every where
What you can do?
Quit tobacco products and live a healthy and clean life. Ask the nearby health worker, or your physician how to quit tobacco products
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