- Tobacco - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tobacco fact sheet from WHO providing key facts and information on surveillance, second-hand smoke, quitting, picture warnings, ad bans, taxes, WHO response
- Tobacco - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tobacco use is highly addictive and a major risk factor for diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer
- Tobacco - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tobacco use is one of the world's leading preventable causes of death and is a major preventable risk factor of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, lung and heart diseases The most common type of tobacco product used is manufactured cigarettes, but tobacco is also used in many other forms Tobacco kills up to half of its users, and more than 7 million people each year lose their lives as a
- TYPES OF NICOTINE AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS
SMOKED TOBACCO PRODUCTS These are tobacco products that produce smoke that is inhaled by users and non-users, when exposed They include manufactured cigarettes, roll-your-own-cigarettes, shisha (waterpipe), cigars, cigarillos, bids, kreteks and heated tobacco products tobacco), applied to the gums (dip), Heated tobacco products or snus)
- Effects of tobacco on health
Tobacco is deadly in any form Smoked tobacco products, including waterpipes, contain over 7000 chemicals, including at least 250 chemicals known to be toxic or to cause cancer Use of smokeless tobacco products can result in serious, sometimes fatal, health problems Lifelong tobacco smokers lose at least 10 years of life on average Tobacco use or exposure to tobacco smoking affects almost
- Tobacco fact sheet - World Health Organization (WHO)
All forms of tobacco are harmful, and there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco Cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco use worldwide Other tobacco products include waterpipe tobacco, various smokeless tobacco products, cigars, cigarillos, roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco, bidis and kreteks
- FACTS ABOUT TOBACCO - World Health Organization (WHO)
Every year, tobacco use takes more than 8 7 million lives worldwide, over and around 7 million from direct use 1 3 million as a result of second-hand smoke exposure among non-smokers Of those who die from tobacco-smoke attributable illnesses, 51 000 are under the age of 20
- Tobacco - India - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tobacco use is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases, including cancer, lung disease, cardiovascular disease and stroke It is one of the major causes of death and disease in India and accounts for nearly 1 35 million deaths every year
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