{"id":2107,"date":"2021-01-14T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vayuacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2021-01-16T06:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T06:08:46","slug":"tobacco-and-its-all-encompassing-health-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vayuacademy.com\/blog\/tobacco-and-its-all-encompassing-health-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"TOBACCO and its all-encompassing Health Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The white men came in ships to coastal India, in the 17th<\/sup> century with a ship full of plants. One such plant was Tobacco brought by the Portuguese in 1605. Over a period of time Tobacco use, or should we say misuse started. In hookahs, chillums, cheroots, biris or mixed in paan. Consumption of Cannabis in India is recorded in the Atharvaveda, around 2000 BC. Biri, prior to 1605, contained clove and grated betel nut. Later, the British rulers got our forests cleared for planting Tobacco on a large scale. Curing of tobacco was also taught to the Indian farmers. Firewood was needed to produce Virginia, a kind of tobacco, so more forests were cut down. Many different varieties of tobacco have since been produced in India in its different regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

POSITIVE EFFECTS OF TOBACCO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Effects on Livelihood<\/strong> \u2013 Around 42 million workers (including women and children) of small towns and villages are involved in biri manufacturing. There are 6 million farmers growing tobacco. If we include the related workers of cigarette, paan masala, cheroots, cigars factories along with traders, paanwaris, paper, packaging transportation and export unit, the total number is around 450 million. <\/li>
  2. Effects on Economy<\/strong> \u2013 As per Assocham, the tobacco industry has contributed a whopping Rs 11,79,498 crores to the Indian economy. On a yearly basis, Rs 6000 crores worth of tobacco and its products are exported to over 100 countries. Tobacco has cascading effects on the fertiliser, pesticide, mentha, paper and board, plastics and many other industries. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TOBACCO <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The negative effects of tobacco and its products are multifarious. It doesn\u2019t just affect the user but also their family, pets, coworkers and friends. It also affects the entire environment of air, soil and water, including living beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Cigarette smoking PC Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
    1. Effects on Human Health <\/strong>\u2013 The negative effects of Tobacco were well known for a long time but were denied by the Tobacco industry. Only when the causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer was established in the Supreme Court of the US, more and more research was brought to light. Tobacco has nicotine and 4000 other toxic chemicals, many carcinogenic. Cigarettes have ill effects of burning paper smoke too. There is no organ of the body which is not affected by Tobacco. A few important ill effects are listed.