adminCigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence causes significant health problems among young people, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness and potential effects on lung growth and function. Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. Secondhand smoke exposure contributes to approximately 41,000 deaths among nonsmoking adults and 400 deaths in infants each year. Secondhand smoke causes stroke, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease in adults. Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, middle ear disease, more severe asthma, respiratory symptoms, and slowed lung growth.
It is easy to get addicted to something like tobacco but very hard to come out of it. Hence we have prepared a guidebook for those who are trying hard to get rid of this life threatening drug but finding it hard. The guidebook to quit tobacco is translated in Bengali for easy reception by the people of West Bengal, which has one of largest number of tobacco users in India.
