Campus Policies
Admin TFP
NEED ACCELERATION OF CAMPUS POLICIES NATIONWIDE IN PAKISTAN There are number of colleges, universities schools and other institutes of heiher learning in Pakistan. The Tobacco free campus initiative is needed.Let’s…
Tobacco and Diabetes
Smoking and Diabetes both reduce the amount of oxygen reaching your bodily tissues, resulting in poor circulation. Smoking raises your blood sugar level making it harder to control your diabetes.…
Tobacco and Cardiovascular Diseases
How Is Smoking Related to Heart Disease and Stroke? Smoking is a major cause of CVD and causes one of every three deaths from CVD.1 Smoking can:2 Raise triglycerides (a type…
Tobacco and Cancer
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death among Indian women Women’s death rates due to lung cancer have risen 600% since 1950 About 90% of all lung…
Secondhand Smoking
What is SHS Smoke breathed out by a smoker and smoke from the burning end of cigarettes, cigars, pipes Composed of nearly 4,000 different chemicals and over 150 toxins including…
Smokeless Tobacco
WHAT IS SMOKELESS TOBACCO Tobacco that is not burned (combusted) Traditional smokeless products *Chew (“spitting tobacco,” placed between cheek and gums) *Snuff (dry snuff sniffed through nose; moist snuff, or…
Tobacco & Environment
Smoking Environmental Risks When confronted about smoking (by nonsmokers or even their own conscience) most smokers will get into a defensive stance. Sure, they know that smoking is unhealthy but,…
Contents in Cigarettes
CONTENTS IN CIGARETTES – 4000 Chemicals– Cancer causing agents– 500 Poisons NICOTINE– Poisonous– More addictive than cocaine and heroine– So powerful that farmers can’t use it to kill insects– Legal…
How to stop Smoking
Think! Why do you smoke? – Nicotine is the only know psychoactive ingredient in tobacco smoke.– Addicted smokers smoke for one principal reason—to get their accustomed doses of nicotine.– When…
History of Tobacco
Tobacco has a long history from its usages in the early Americas. Increasingly popular with the arrival of Spain to America, which introduced tobacco to the Europeans by whom it…