Rashmi Sapkal
M.A. Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Center, India
Title: Global warming: tobacco-an unseen scar
Biography
Biography: Rashmi Sapkal
Abstract
Thousands quit smoking every day - by dying ~author unknown tobacco and the tobacco products affects human in all the possible ways as children who are exposed to tobacco smoke on daily basis grow up with more than triple the risk of lung cancer later in life compared to those who grow up in smokeless environment, personal appearance such as premature aging, wrinkling, greying, wasted appearance, delayed wound healing, and delaying in recovery and increased complications are recorded not only on health but also economical fronts are affected when it comes to being addictive to the tobacco products. All phases of tobacco production have the potential to contribute to climate change from farming to curing the leaf and manufacturing process. many studies are being conducted to study the impact of tobacco on ecological aspect, devastating effects on human health, chemical wastes in the process of manufacturing of tobacco products and the enormous amounts of litter caused by cigarette butts which are not bi-degradable the life cycle of cigarette takes a heavy toll on environment from growing the tobacco plant to the disposal of butts. The ecological impacts of tobacco are over shadowed by its devastating effects on human health, they are nevertheless considered as a cause of cancer. Many attempts are being made to reassess the carcinogenicity of several compounds including tobacco, though the lancet oncology concluded that smoking is cause of at least 15 types of cancer. This is to heave a light on the issue we always talk and alarmed about and need to act before the devil gulps the humans, gorgeous mother earth and the hard earned money of each individual who enjoys the transient smoky cloud of evil tobacco that is tobacco vs. health environment and economics.