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.

1. BY,
SANJAY KUMAR NAIK

2. Tobacco is an agricultural product & ‘Nicotine’
is a drug found in tobacco which is highly
addictive.

3. Tobacco can be consumed in the forms of
smoking, chewing, dipping or sniffing.

4. Many people use smokeless tobacco products,
such as snuff and chewing tobacco in the form of
Gutkha, Khaini, Mawa, Pan masala etc.

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

6. Smoking decreases the blood supply to your
brain, constricts the blood vessels and
causes ‘atherosclerosis’.

7. Smoking & chewing tobacco are the main cause
of cancers of the tongue, salivary gland, mouth,
pharynx and for brown teeth.

8. Smokers are ten times as likely to get lung
cancer and emphysema as non-smokers.

9. Nicotine causes the blood clots & development
of plaque which leads to Risk of heart attack.

10. Esophageal cancer in esophagus
happens due to smoking.

11. Tobacco smoking or chewing accelerate the
process of Stomach cancer.

12. Kidney cancer is more common and
aggressive among tobacco users.

13. Poor blood circulation damages the blood
vessel lead to death of body tissue which
increases risk of ‘Gangrene’.

14. Tobacco smokers suffer more fractures
due to higher rate of
Osteoporosis (Decreased bone density).

15. Tobacco in some cases 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 Tobacco smoking as soon as possible