Tobacco and Cancer

Today ….
• History
• Constituents
• Types of tobacco consumption
• Problem
• Effects on body
• Treatment
• Take home MESSAGE….
 History
• 6000 BC – Americans first cultivation of
Tobacco
• 1492 – Columbus discovers tobacco smoking
in Cuba
• In 150 yrs smoking spreads to all the
continents
• WW I and WW II- usage exploded
• Soldiers given free stock, leading to addiction
 Tobacco Constituents
• Tar
• Nicotine
• Carbon Monoxide
• Other constituents- more than 70 like
arsenic, benzene, benzoyl peroxide, Heavy
metals (lead and chromium), hydrogen
cyanide and tobacco specific nitrosamines
Types of Tobacco
 Problem????
• 1864 – Surgeon General report ‘Smoking and
Health’ smoking causes lung cancer
• 1979- Surgeon General report on Health
consequences of smoking on women
 Effect on body
• Inhalation / ingestion
– Lung cancer, esophagus, oral cancers

• Metabolism
– Liver, blood cancers

• Excretion
– Kidney, bladder etc.
 Smoking affects whole family…
• Family

• Pregnant females

• Children/kids
 Smokers Vs Non Smokers
Smokers Non Smokers
• Sports- less oxygen • Sports- healthy lungs

• Food- loses apetite • Food- healthy diet

• Breathing- difficult • Breathing- comfortable

breathing

• Work- easily tired • Work- more output

 Treatment
• Surgery

• Chemotherapy

• Radiotherapy

• Palliative management-
– Advanced disease, host factors, treatment effects
Chain Reaction of education- YOU
Thank you