TOBACCO

A Leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases.

PRESENTED BY –ADITYA TATODESANSKAR LALWANI

TOBACCO (तम्बाकू)

Introduction

Tobacco is a plant of the nightshade family. Dried tobacco leaves are often smoked in cigars, cigarettes and pipes, but can also be chewed in the mouth or sniffed in the nose. Tobacco contains a very powerful addictive chemical called nicotine which makes it very hard for tobacco users to stop using it.Tobacco users (especially smokers) risk many very serious and often deadly illnesses, such as cancer, strokes, heart disease, and lung disease.

Why Do People Start Smoking?

People usually start smoking during their teens thinking it to be ‘cool ’ or saying ‘they just want to try it.’Tobacco Contain a type of drug called Nicotine.Nicotine and other chemicals in tobacco smoke are easily absorbed into the blood through the lungs. From there, nicotine quickly spreads throughout the body.

Tobacco can be consumed in the form of Smoking, Sniffing, Chewing and Dipping. Many people use smokeless tobacco such as Snuff and chewing tobacco in the form of Gutkha, Khaini, Pan Masala, Mawa etc.

VARIOUS TYPES OF TOBACCOBeedis : Crushed and dried tobacco is wrapped in tendu leaves and rolled into a beedi (rolls).

Cigarettes and cigars : A cigar is a roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco, and a cigarette is a roll of tobacco wrapped in paper.

Chillum : This involves smoking tobacco in a clay pipe. Chillum smoking increases chances of oral cancer and lung cancer.

Hookah: Hookah smoking involves a device that heats the tobacco and passes it through water before it is inhaled.

Khaini (गुटखा): This is one of the most common methods of chewing tobacco. Dried tobacco leaves are crushed and mixed with slaked lime and chewed as a quid.

Paan masala: Paan masala is a commercial preparation containing the areca nut, slaked lime,catechu, and condiments, with or without powdered tobacco.

Consumption of tabacco

Though the warning on every packet of Cigarette and other harmful tobacco product, there is an increase in tobacco product consumption every year. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that each year tobacco causes about 6 million deaths with 0.6 million of these occurring in non smokers due to second hand smoke.

Cigarette smoking is the most popular method of using tobacco which contains more than 4000 toxic chemicals and 60 carcinogens.

(तम्बाकू) is one of the most used form of tabacco India. Also known as chewing tobacco. It contains a powder which is being chewed by the consumers

It is noticeable that in asian countriesthe difference between male and female consumers in too much while in other continents the use of tobacco is similar between both the genders.

Also the scale for both the illustration have huge difference in them showing the amount of difference in the overall combustion of male and female.

Health Effects of TOBACCO

Approximately 90% of the people with mouth cancer are TOBACCO users.

Approximately 55% of the people die due to heart diseases, strokes,etc. and many such chronic diseases caused by TOBACCO.

Diseases caused by Tobacco use• Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting

the heart, liver and lungs.• Smoking is a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes,

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer).

• The effects depend on the number of years that a person smokes and on how much the person smokes. Starting smoking earlier in life and smoking cigarettes higher in tar increases the risk of these diseases.

• Environmental tobacco smoke, or secondhand smoke, has been shown to cause adverse health effects in people of all ages.

• Tobacco use is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, and it contributes to a number of other health problems of the foetus such as premature birth, low birth weight, and increases by 1.4 to 3 times the chance of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Health effects of smokingCancer

Tobacco is expected to affect the body with more than 60 types of cancer including adrenal cancer (affecting the growth of the victim) , Lung Cancer.The risk of dying from lung cancer before age 85 is 22.1% for a male smoker and 11.9% for a female smoker, in the absence of competing causes of death.

HEART DISEASESmoking harms nearly every organ in your body, including your heart. Smoking can cause blockages and narrowing in your arteries, which means less blood and oxygen flow to your heart.

Renal In addition to increasing the risk of

kidney cancer, smoking can also contribute to additional renal damage.

Smokers are at a significantly increased risk for chronic kidney disease than non-smokers.

STROKESmoking affects your arteries, it can trigger stroke. A stroke happens when the blood supply to your brain is temporarily blocked.Brain cells are deprived of oxygen and start to die. A stroke can cause paralysis, slurred speech, altered brain function and death

WAYS TO CREATE AWARENESS AMONGST PEOPLE ABOUT THE ILL-EFFECTS OF TOBACCO The movies should stop showing scenes that involves use of

tobacco. Famous celebrities should promote awareness about harmful

effects of tobacco. Adults should avoid the use of tobacco in front of the children. The parents should take care that their children are not in use

with it.

Now a days people burn these parachute lamps which can be seen by many people at the same time we can use this to spread our message.

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