Everyone is Important was a document about the benefits of preventing tobacco use among young people. It discussed how tobacco use leads to various diseases that affect the heart and lungs. Preventing tobacco use among young people helps avoid long-term health problems, premature death, and decreases the likelihood they will become regular tobacco users as adults.

1. Everyone is Important
KELANA JAYA MEDICAL CENTRE SDN BHD
Tobacco products are products
made entirely or partly of leaf
tobacco as raw material, which are
intended to be smoked, sucked,
chewed or snuffed. All contain the
highly addictive psychoactive
ingredient, nicotine.
Tobacco use leads most
commonly to diseases
affecting the heart and lungs,
with smoking being a major
risk factor for heart
attacks, strokes, chronic Benefits of Preventing
obstructive pulmonary
Tobacco Use Among
disease(COPD), emphysema,
and cancer (particularly lung Young People
cancer, cancers of the larynx
and mouth, and pancreatic Helps prevent
cancer). It is also the number long-term health
one cause of bladder cancer. problems and
premature death.
Dramatically
decreases the
likelihood that a
young person will
become a regular
tobacco user as
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