Each minute 2 Indians die due to tobacco
It is the single largest preventable cause of disease and death
Tobacco is a highly addictive substance
Tobacco use causes - Cancer, Heart Disease, Bronchitis, Gangrene & Amputation, and Impotence
HEALTH EDUCATION helps teens to fight this menace
The tobacco use habit can be kicked
Wide availability & acceptability leading to curiosity and experimentation
Wrong role models
Peer Pressure
Skillful & Misleading advertising and propaganda by the tobacco Industry
Mistaken beliefs and practices
Increased tolerance to tobacco
Withdrawal symptoms (irritability, depression)
Inability to give up the habit, in spite of knowing ill effects
Wasting precious time in procuring and using tobacco
Lifestyle and work choices based on the tobacco habit
Medications and behavioral therapy (30%)
Holistic behavioral therapy (20%)
Medications (Bupropion) and advice (20%)
Nicotine patches & gum (15%)
Physicianâs advice (10%)
Self-help book (10%)
By educating youth & creating awareness in them, by teens capable of assertive & clear communication (in a friendly manner).
By being aware, alert & proactive to resisting the subliminal appeal of advertising.
By creating an atmosphere where tobacco use becomes unacceptable & disgraceful.
KICKING THE TOBACCO HABIT:Having a clear understanding about the evils of tobacco, Being mentally prepared for the required effort
Involving friends, family, relatives and physicians in helping, Overall holistic behavioral changes.
Cancer of lungs and oral cavity
Heart Disease
Bronchitis
Gangrene & Amputation
Oxygen deficiency in the body
Impotence
Weak and low-birth-weight children
Wrinkling of skin (early aging)
Loss of taste and smell, Ulcer
Cancer, Heart and lung diseases in near and dear ones
Tobacco use is highly addictive and dangerous
Health Education along with capacity building helps teens to fight this menace, by educating youth & creating awareness in them.Teens capable of assertive & clear communication (in a friendly manner) are able to resist starting on tobacco
Health Education helps teens in becoming alert & proactive to resisting the subliminal appeal of advertising
Tobacco use habit can be defeated.
Tobacco and the Law. Selling tobacco to minors or within 100 yards of a school is a cognizable offense. Smoking in public places is prohibited. Direct & indirect tobacco promotion and advertisement is banned
