The World Health Organization (WHO), strictly says no to tobacco productions let alone smoking! Here are various reasons amongst others why WHO says no to tobacco productions:

‘ Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year – don’t be one of them.

The benefits of quitting tobacco are almost immediate. After just 20 minutes of quitting smoking, your heart rate improves. Within 1-9 months, coughing and shortness of breath decrease. Within 5-15 years, your stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker. Within 10 years, your lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker. Within 15 years, your risk of heart disease is that of a non-smoker. If that’s not enough here are a few more reasons!

(1) Tobacco use is responsible for 25% of all cancer deaths globally.

(2) It threatens the health of your friends and family – not just you.

‘For instance,’ E-cigarettes also expose non-smokers and bystanders to nicotine and other harmful chemicals.

(3) Tobacco affects your looks almost immediately.

‘For example,’ tobacco makes your skin wrinkly, making you look older faster. Smoking prematurely ages the skin by wearing away proteins that give the skin elasticity, depleting it of vitamin A and restricting blood flow.

(4).Smoking or using e-cigarettes around children compromises their health and safety.

(5) Tobacco use has negative social consequences.

 You want to be a good example for your kids, friends, and loved ones. 

(6) It’s expensive – you could be spending your money on more important things.

(7) Smokers are more likely to experience infertility. Quitting smoking reduces difficulty getting pregnant, having premature births, babies with low birth weights and miscarriage.

(8)  Smoking can cause erectile dysfunction. Smoking restricts blood flow to the penis creating an inability to achieve an erection. Erectile dysfunction is more common in smokers and very likely to persist or become permanent unless the man stops smoking early in life. 

(9) Smoking also diminishes sperm count, motility and shape of the sperm in men. 

(10) All forms of tobacco are deadly.

(11) When you buy tobacco, you are financially supporting an industry that exploits farmers and children and pedals sickness and death.

1. ‘For example’ Over 1 million children are employed in tobacco farming, which impacts not only their health, but also their ability to attend school.

(12) Heated tobacco products are harmful to health.

(13) E-cigarettes are harmful to health and not safe.

(14) Tobacco use, particularly smoking, takes your breath away.

(12) Tobacco breaks hearts.

(13) Tobacco causes over 20 types of cancer.

(14) Smokers are more likely to lose their vision and hearing.

(15) Tobacco harms almost every organ of the body.

(16) Tobacco and nicotine use harm your baby.

(17) Tobacco pollutes the environment.

(18) Tobacco use contributes to poverty by diverting household spending from basic needs such as food and shelter to tobacco.

(19)  over 1 million people die every year from exposure to second-hand smoke. 

(20) Quitting smoking decreases the risk of many diseases related to second-hand smoke in children, such as respiratory diseases (e.g., asthma) and ear infections. ‘

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Culled from WHO post.

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