Introduction

According to World
Health organization [WHO](2008) tobacco products are products made entirely or
partly of leaf tobacco as raw material, which are intended to be smoked,
sucked, chewed or snuffed.
Tobacco use is
a risk factor for many diseases, especially those affecting the heart, liver, and
lungs as well as many cancers, in 2008 WHO named tobacco as the world’s
single greatest cause of preventable death.

Healthline
(2014) summarized that smoking causes mood stimulation, poor vision, anxiety
and irritability, another cold, another flu, lung cancer, constricted blood
vessels, high cholesterol, heart disease, stained teeth, smelly hair, diabetes
complications, erectile dysfunction, early menopause, problems with pregnancy,
appetite suppressant, coughing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
bronchitis, too much clotting, blood cancer, yellow fingers, wrinkly skin, bad
teeth, infertility, cancer connection, cervical cancer and problems for newborns.
Webster’s New
World College Dictionary (2010) defined tobacco as a plant yield nicotine – rich
leaves that have been prepared to be smoked or chewed.
Centre for
Disease Control and Prevention (2014) describe tobacco use as the single most important
preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause
of premature death worldwide.
Tobacco
consumption causes a large number of deaths about 6 million people die annually
from tobacco consumption 600 thousand people are killed from second hand
smokers.
The second hand
smokers are those people that are killed as a result of the inhalation of these
smoke from cigarette smokers, an average smoker dies 10 years younger than non
smokers so therefore tobacco is a public health threat that demand immediate
eradication.
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