Tobacco-Facts
FACTS
- Tobacco use is the second cause of death globally (after hypertension) and is currently responsible for killing one in 10 adults worldwide.
- Second Hand Smoking kills lakhs of people every year
- There is no safe level of Exposure to Second-hand smoking
- Only 20% of the total tobacco consumed in India is in the form of cigarettes
- about 40% is in the form of bidis
- 40% is consumed as chewing tobacco, pan masala, snuff, gutkha, masheri and tobacco toothpaste
- These products contain putrefied tobacco, paraffin, areca nut, lime, catechu, and 230 permitted additives and flavours including known carcinogens
- smokeless tobacco has been directly related to the incidence of oral cancer