Quit Cigarettes from No Smoking day 2021.
No Smoking day: A cigarette puff contains 200 harmful chemicals, of which 40 are those that cause cancer. But despite this, people are not deterred from smoking. Smoking smokers play with their own lives, they also endanger the lives of the people around them. The world is full of people who smoke. But the people of India are not far behind in this.
According to research, 48 percent of men and 20 percent of women smoke in India. 80 percent of cancer cases in the country are coming out from the smoke. Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Dr. Ashok Chauhan, Head of the Department of Cancer, said that according to research, about one million people die every year from lung cancer, of which about 80 percent are due to cancer. Just smoking. They reported that smoking acts like slow-pies.
As an early effect of cancer, health problems such as burning sensation in the throat, trouble in breathing and coughing, etc. start showing their results. After this, there is a possibility of bronchitis, pneumonia, heart disease, stroke, and different types of cancer gradually. Smoking leads man to premature death. He told that one cigarette puff contains 200 harmful chemicals, out of which about 40 are those which cause cancer.
The average age of men and women decreases
According to Dr. Chauhan, smokers include not only men but also women. According to research, smoking reduces the average age of a man by about 13 years and the average age of a woman by about 14 years. In PGI, if 100 cancer patients come for treatment, then there are about 80 of them who have got cancer due to smoking. Along with rural areas, now a new option of hookah bars has come to the cities as well, in which youth are growing like smoking. Fueled hookah is a health hazard. The prevalence of hookah is more prevalent in rural areas.
Smoking in 80 out of 100 causes cancer
Dr. Ashok Chauhan, president of the cancer department of PGIMS Rohtak, says that smoking is the biggest cause of cancer. If 100 patients come to cancer in PGI, about 80 of them are found to be the cause of cancer smoking. Will power is needed to get rid of it. Counseling is also conducted by the institute from time to time and awareness programs are also organized.
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