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Tobacco - Our Enemy No. ONE

Tobacco is one of the most important health hazard for the human race.

Approximately more than One billion people are using tobacco worldwide.
Smoking related diseasses are responsible for One in Ten adult deaths worldwide.
By 2030, roughly 10 million deaths per year may be the figure and tobacco may be the leading cause of death worldwide.

Diseases caused by tobacco

Cancers caused by Tobacco

The exact pattern of cancer risk due to tobacco is related to the method of tobacco consumption - smoking and smokeless.

Smoking of tobacco - Cigarette, Bedi Cigar, Hukka etc.

Smokeless - Tobacco with betel leaves, Chewing tobacco (khaini), Guthkha, Tobacco snuff.

Addiction to tobacco is basically addiction to Nicotine. Smokers try to maintain thier blood nicotine levels. In addition to nicotine tobacco is source of a large number of organic molecules. Some of these molecules especially polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nitosamines are responsible for the development of cancers.
Genetic factors many be important in development of tobacco addiction as well as in determining smoking pattern.

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