Indian Professor: Not just lungs, smoking affects every cell of human body
April 8, 2022, 9:45 am

Indian Professor: Not just lungs, smoking affects every cell of human body

Smoking affects not just lungs but also every cells of human body and the hard organs like bones and teeth (File photo: Pixabay)

The We For News reprorted, Professor Uma Kumar, Head of Rheumatology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, said that not just lungs but also every cells of human body and the hard organs like bones and teeth get adversely affected by smoking.

Kumar said that the first hand smoke and second hand smoke both are equally harmful for health.

Expressing concerns on rising smoking habits among women, she said that it may result into infertility, cases of which is also rising these days. Also, smoking may lead to premature birth.

Kumar said while speaking on the prevention of deaths caused by tobacco on the occasion of World Health Day that people generally think that smoking affects lungs only, but the case is different, it affects every parts and is one of the important risk factors for growing numbers cases related to autoimmune diseases.

Smoking affects every parts and is one of the important risk factors for growing numbers cases related to autoimmune diseases (File photo: Pixabay)

The event was organised by Tobacco Free India.

Dr Vishal Rao of HCG, Bangalore said that the reason for the rapidly increasing cases of oral cancer in India is tobacco products.

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Eminent economist and BJP’s national spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal said that in order to save the lives of 13 lakh Indians annually, it is need of the hour that the strictness on tobacco products should be increased.

Source: wefornews

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