Srinagar, Oct 16: Kashmir-based medico cum noted health columnist Dr Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Monday said that smoking tobacco poses multiple health risks to human body leading to development of multiple disease conditions.
“Smoking Tobbaco is the crucial cause of diseases of almost every organ system of the human body most common being lung cancers, stroke and heart diseases including other lifestyle diseases.”, he said.
“We could see rising incidence of such medical conditions nowadays — one of the prominent risk factors being smoking tobacco”, he said.
He further said that exposure to secondhand smoke raises the risk — by as much as 30 percent — that others will get lung cancer and many other types of cancer, besides pose a risk for development of heart diseases.
“Chewing tobacco use is also a risk factor for the development of oral cancers, gum disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, and have possible links to other cancers as well”, he said.
“There is a dire need to held more awareness public campaigns to sensitize the society towards the ill effects of smoking tobacco on human body, our environment and other living beings and to ensure the ways for its prevention”, he added.
