Tobacco smoking and its bad effects

1. Students

2. Facts about Tobacco
1.3 billion people smoke world wide
6000 billion cigarettes are smoked every year world wide
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death.
•Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 6, million deaths per
year, more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers
being exposed to second-hand smoke. and current trends
show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths
annually by 2030.
•Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths
annually.
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3. There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average
adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two
milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, the remainder being
burned off
-Cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead,
hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide,
ammonia and more than 60 known carcinogens.
-Urea, a chemical compound that is a major component
in urine, is used to add “flavor” to cigarettes.
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4. Scientists claim the average smoker will lose 10-14 years
of their life due to smoking. This however does not
necessarily mean that a smoker will die young – and they
may still live out a ‘normal’ lifespan.
Most smokers take up the habit in their mid teens, well
before the legal age for purchasing them.
•Nearly 80% of the world's one billion smokers live in low-
and middle-income countries.

5. A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals,
69 of which are known to cause cancer.

6. Forms of Tobacco
Tobacco comes in different forms
Cigarette s
Chewing tobacco
Pipes and water pipes
Cigars

7. Second-hand smoke kills
Second-hand smoke kills
Second-hand smoke is the smoke that fills restaurants,
offices or other enclosed spaces when people burn
tobacco products such as cigarettes, bidis and water
pipes. There are more than 4000 chemicals in tobacco
smoke, of which at least 250 are known to be harmful
and more than 50 are known to cause cancer.
There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand
tobacco smoke.
•In adults, second-hand smoke causes serious
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, including
coronary heart disease and lung cancer. In infants, it
causes sudden death. In pregnant women, it causes low
birth weight.
•Almost half of children regularly breathe air polluted by
tobacco smoke in public

8. Bad effects of Tobacco
Tobacco:
Is addective more than heroin or cocaine
Makes your cloth, hair, and breath smell bad.
Turns your teeth and finger yellow
Increase risk of stroke, hypertension and heart attacks
Increase risk of developing diabetes
Is the most common cause of lung, throat and mouth cancer
Impairs fertility
Pregnancy problems

9. Some of diseases caused by
smoking

11. Smoking 400,000
Accidents 94,000
2nd Hand Smoke 38,000
Alcohol 45,000
HIV/AIDS 32,600
Suicide 31,000
Homicide 21,000
Drugs 14,200
Consequences of Tobacco-Use:
Preventable Causes of Death

12. Smoking and cost
In a simple count, the all adult population of Georgia is
4185000, over all prevalence of smokers about 30%,
supposing the mean cigarettes number smoked/day is one
pack, and the price of one pack is $ 0.25.
4185000 x 30/100 x 0.25 =313875 US Dollars are spent to
cigarette daily in Georgia>
313875 x 360=112,995,000 US Dollars spent anually.

14. Tobacco users need help to quit
In 2008, WHO introduced a practical, cost-effective way to scale up
implementation of provisions of the WHO
Framework Convention on the ground: MPOWER.
The six MPOWER measures are:
•M-Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies
•In most countries around the world, the legal age for the purchase of tobacco products is now
18, while in Japan the age minimum is 20 years old.
•P-Protect people from tobacco use
•Graphic warnings can persuade smokers to protect the health of non-smokers by smoking less
inside the home and public enclosed areas and avoiding smoking near children.
•O-Offer help to quit tobacco use
•W-Warn about the dangers of tobacco
E-Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
•Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship can reduce tobacco consumption
•R-Raise taxes on tobacco.
•A tax increase that increases tobacco prices by 10% decreases tobacco consumption by
about 4%