Tobacco kills 6 million people every year

On July 7, 2015, in a report titled "The Pandemiccigarette"Global Tobacco Day 2015", the World Health Organization has warned that global tobacco consumption now kills 6 million people a year, more than the number of deaths from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. If the situation continues without any measures to prevent it, this number will increase to 8 million people by 2030.

Long-term smoking damages the endothelium of blood vessels, leading to chronic constriction of blood vessels, causing damage to the heart muscle. Illustration photo

According to the World Health Organization,cigaretteis one of the four main risk factors behind non-communicable diseases, mainly lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, other types of cancer and diabetes. Tobacco is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, cancer of all parts of the body, lung diseases, fetal malformations, premature birth...

The leading disease caused by tobacco is cancer (30% of all cancers). Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer 15 times, pharynx - larynx 10 times, esophagus 7 times, oral cavity and kidney cancer 4 times, bladder 3 times, pancreas 2 times. Smokers also have a higher risk of leukemia, brain cancer than normal people, especially when exposed to passive smoking from the fetus or when they are young.

Types of cancer caused by tobacco include: Lung cancer; Esophageal cancer; Laryngeal cancer; Oral cancer; Nasal cancer; Kidney and bladder cancer; Pancreatic cancer; Uterine cancer; Anal and colorectal cancer; "Private area" cancer.

In addition to cancer, tobacco causes many other diseases: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cardiovascular diseases (ischemic cardiomyopathy, stroke, lower limb embolism); Digestive tract diseases such as gastric and duodenal ulcers; Effects on reproductive function in both men and women; Effects on the normal progression of pregnancy.

Smoking causes more deaths than HIV, drugs, alcoholism, traffic accidents and murders combined.

Thanh Chung