Role of Dentists in Creating a Tobacco free Society
<p>"Giving up smoking is easy I have done it a thousand times" is an adage that puts in perspective the difficulties in tobacco cessation. Tobacco is a global agent of death [1]. The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing around...
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Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health - Peertechz Publications,
2016-09-08.
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| Summary: | <p>"Giving up smoking is easy I have done it a thousand times" is an adage that puts in perspective the difficulties in tobacco cessation. Tobacco is a global agent of death [1]. The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing around 6 million people a year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Nearly 80% of the more than 1 billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest [2]. Globally the toll of deaths due to tobacco is on a rise exponentially.</p> |
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| DOI: | 10.17352/2455-5479.000016 |