Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Different forms of Tobacco and its Bad Effects on Our Health and Society

  • Author:
  • Sourav Chandra Bidyasagar Bal1, Radha Prasanna Dalai2, Sashikant Sethi3, Varun Darshan4
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 409 to 412

1Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

2Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

3Tutor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

4Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics & Preventive Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

Better health is achieved by good nutritive food. Different constituents reside in the food have their individual role in betterment of our health. But there is certain harm full product like (different forms of tobacco chewing and non-chewing tobacco) which has very dangerous effect directly on our systemic health and oral heal. In other hands it also affects environment economic status of that country. Due to heavy use of different kinds of harm full tobacco product most of the people develops non communicable diseases like oral cancer, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, chronic heart disease. After the development of these non-communicable fatal diseases they have to spend a huge amount of money for the management of these diseases. Ithas direct impact on the productive capacity of that individual and that community also.

Keywords

Tobacco, Effects of tobacco, Healthcare, Society, Awareness