Tobacco is a plant that contains nicotine, a highly addictive chemical. It is consumed through smoking cigarettes, cigars, beedis, or hookahs, as well as through chewing products like gutkha and paan masala. While many start using tobacco to look "cool" in their teens, it can lead to serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, and lung disease. The document outlines the various methods of tobacco consumption and their health effects, such as the high risk of mouth, lung, and other cancers. It also discusses the need for greater public awareness campaigns on the dangers of tobacco.

1. TOBACCO
A Leading risk factor for non-
communicable diseases.
PRESENTED BY –
ADITYA TATODE
SANSKAR LALWANI

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. VARIOUS TYPESOFTOBACCO
Beedis : 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.

7.  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.

8. Consumption oftabacco
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.

9.  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

10. It is noticeable that in asian
countries
the 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.

12. Health EffectsofTOBACCO
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.

13. Diseases caused byTobacco 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)

14. Health effects of smoking
Cancer
 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 DISEASE
Smoking 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.

15. 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.
STROKE
Smoking 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

16. WAYS TO CREATE AWARENESS AMONGSTPEOPLE
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.

17. 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.

18. THANK U