1Assistant Professor, Department of TB & Chest Diseases, Heritage Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhadwar, Varanasi
2Prof & Head, Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005
*Corresponding Address: Email: jkmishra.imsbhu@gmail.com
Online published on 23 June, 2017.
Tobacco is a leading preventable cause of death. Worldwide it kills nearly six million people every year. The global tobacco epidemic kills more people than TB, HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. India is the second largest tobacco consumer in the world, and accounts for the 1/6th of the world's tobacco related deaths. In India the problem is more complex because of the consumption of a variety of smokeless and smoking forms. Understanding the tobacco problem in India, focusing on the methods that work and working out the impact of various socio-cultural diversity and cost-effectiveness of various modalities of tobacco control should be our main aim.
Smoking, Smokeless Tobacco, Cancer
