Health effects of tobacco

A decade after a ban on smoking in public spaces was voted into law, nonsmokers are growing increasingly irate at authorities for their failure to enforce the measure.

Over the past five years, the number of smokers in Greece has fallen by 9.6 percentage points, according to the results of a recent survey presented on Friday by health experts in Trikala, central Greece.

Every year the third Thursday of November marks the International Smoking-free Day. This year, the Ministry of Health decided on November 16, 2017, the motto of the campaign to be "Smoking and you", reports bgnes. 

Smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards, according to new research from King’s College London in collaboration with the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Cambridge.
The findings, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, contradict a widely held belief that smoking relieves stress and giving up makes people feel more on edge.

Tobacco kills 7.2 million people and costs the world economy .4 trillion every year as well as leading to deforestation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday, quoted by Anadolu Agency. 

In a statement released ahead of World No Tobacco Day, the UN's health agency stressed the environmental impact of smoking.

Data from the World Health Organisation has revealed the prevalence of male smokers across the world, with a staggering 40 per cent smoking tobacco.
This is compared to only 9 per cent for women.
Smoking tobacco accounts for the death of 600,000 people worldwide every year, with 1.1 billion people regularly smoking, in 2015.

In Bulgaria, smoking is the cause of 13% of the diseases and causes 12% of death cases, according to a new study made by the World Health Organization, quoted by BTA.

More than 6 million people worldwide die from diseases caused by tobacco use. It is expected in 2030 to reach 10 million people and smoking to become the world's leading single cause of death.

BELGRADE - Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker's lung cells each year.

The findings come from a study of the devastating genetic damage, or mutations, caused by smoking in various organs in the body.

The European Court of Justice rejected tobacco firms legal challenge against EU rules that force them to put graphic images on cigarette packages warning people of the dangers of smoking.

Many of us have probably wondered at some point why it is that some heavy smokers never suffer from any lung related diseases and live to a ripe old age, while people who have never touched a cigarette in their lives die of cancer. The enigma has been solved by scientists who conducted a study on 50,000 people and concluded that it has to do with ‘good genes’.