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“Smoking causes death, disease and disability – it kills half of all long-term smokers. Without continued efforts to reduce smoking rates, the shadow cast by tobacco will continue to devastate many millions of lives.”
Smoking and use of tobacco products in multiple form around the world is a big concern in terms of the safety of the mankind Though it’s a billion dollar industry which is directly linked with economic growth of a country and the growth of employment sectors simultaneously. But ridiculously the use of the end product of this industry by the millions of people now become a national threat around the world.
As per the available statistics Gary Giovino and his team from the University of Buffalo found that around 661 million people currently smoke, while 247 million use smokeless tobacco products. The situation is particularly acute in developing nations, where roughly half of adult men use tobacco. According to who more than 1 billion people around the world smoke and 5 million people die each year from tobacco-related illness, That means about one person is dying every six seconds. Another statistics by who on the exposure of second hand smoke shows that as many as 40 percent of children, 35 percent of women, and 33 percent of men are regularly exposed to second-hand smoke indoors.
Smoking causes over a dozen types of cancer (oral cancer, oesophagus cancer, lung cancer) lung diseases like COPD, emphysema, various cardiac ailments like coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, stroke and many more.
More than 80 percent of the more than 1 billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest. It has been estimated that 165,000 children under the age of 5 die each year from lower respiratory infections caused by second-hand smoke – and most of these deaths occur in Africa and south Asia.
