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Tobacco & its effect
Tobacco contains the highly addictive drug nicotine and can be consumed through smoking, chewing, dipping, or sniffing in products like cigarettes, gutkha, and snuff. Smoking cigarettes exposes a person to over 4000 toxic chemicals and 60 carcinogens and significantly increases the risks of various cancers, heart disease, lung disease, and other health issues. Tobacco use is directly linked to many forms of cancer as well as other serious diseases.
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Tobacco & its effect
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- 2. Tobacco is anagricultural product & ‘Nicotine’ is a drug found in tobacco which is highly addictive.
- 3. Tobacco can beconsumed in the forms of smoking, chewing, dipping or sniffing.
- 4. Many people usesmokeless tobacco products, such as snuff and chewing tobacco in the form of Gutkha, Khaini, Mawa, Pan masala etc.
- 5. Cigarette smoking isthe most popular method of using tobacco which contains more than 4000 toxic chemicals & 60 carcinogens.
- 6. Smoking decreases theblood supply to your brain, constricts the blood vessels and causes ‘atherosclerosis’.
- 7. Smoking & chewingtobacco are the main cause of cancers of the tongue, salivary gland, mouth, pharynx and for brown teeth.
- 8. Smokers are tentimes as likely to get lung cancer and emphysema as non-smokers.
- 9. Nicotine causes theblood clots & development of plaque which leads to Risk of heart attack.
- 10. Esophageal cancer inesophagus happens due to smoking.
- 11. Tobacco smoking orchewing accelerate the process of Stomach cancer.
- 12. Kidney cancer ismore common and aggressive among tobacco users.
- 13. Poor blood circulationdamages the blood vessel lead to death of body tissue which increases risk of ‘Gangrene’.
- 14. Tobacco smokers suffermore fractures due to higher rate of Osteoporosis (Decreased bone density).
- 15. Tobacco in somecases used as a pesticide and in the form of nicotine tart rate used in some medicine. But directly tobacco consumption is dangerous. It kills.
- 16. So Quit Tobaccosmoking as soon as possible