Harmful Tobacco

Anti-tobacco day is observed all around the world on May 31, every year. We started observing this day since 1987. 

Young generation is addicted to tobacco products. You can find smoking habits among school children. We don’t really care the harm caused by these products unless it happens to our kith and kin. Why are people addicted to tobacco products? It is mainly because of the nicotine present in it. Nicotine makes tobacco addiction. 

 

Use of tobacco products cause lung cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, chronic pulmonary diseases, emphysema, bronchitis, strokes and heart attacks. Nicotine reduces supply of oxygen to heart, increases blood pressure and heart rate and also causes clotting of blood. It damages the cells of coronary artery and other blood vessels. 

Awareness may reduce the use of this product. Though it is written in the packet cigarette smoking is injurious to health, people use it. Now the US Food and Drug administration released some graphical images to deter the smokers. Some sentences they selected are as follows:

• Cigarette causes strokes and heart disease.
• Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease.
• Cigarettes cause cancer.
• Smoking can kill you.
• Cigarettes are addictive.

Some treatments to avoid tobacco usage are nicotine replacement therapies, bupropine SR and varenicline tartrate (this reduces the tendency to smoke).

According to WHO, around 35% men in developed countries and 50% in developing countries smoke. China, Russia, US, Japan and Indonesia are leading nations in cigarette consuming. WHO expects that the death rate caused by tobacco is to rise ten million by 2020.