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WHAT IS IT?

smoking
Prevention and Management

WHAT'S IN IT?
A tobacco product in the form of a tube
made of finely cut, cured tobacco leaves
wrapped in thin paper. Tobacco includes
the highly addictive chemical nicotine,
smoking is a difficult habit to stop.

COMMON FACTORS THAT POSSIBLY


TRIGGER THE ONSET OF SMOKING

Peer Pressure Stress Factors

Media Influence Curiosity

MANAGEMENT OF SMOKING:
COMMON ILLNESS IT
PREVENTION, CONTROL AND
MAY BRING TERMINATION

1. Lung Cancer
2. COPD (chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease)
3. Heart disease

4. Reproductive Effects in
women
5. Premature, Low Birth-Weight
Babies
6. Diabetes

7. Blindness, Cataracts and Age-


Related Macular Degeneration
8. Over 10 Other Types of Cancer,
Including Colon, Cervix, Liver,
Stomach and Pancreatic Cancer

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