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Women and Tobacco- An Overview

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  • Namratha Kulkarni

    (Department of Community Medicine, India)

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Tobacco consumption is the single most important avoidable risk factor in the growth of non communicable diseases all over the world [1]. Tobacco use is world’s number one killer and it kills up to half of its regular users. About 22% of women in developed countries and nine percent of women in developing countries smoke tobacco. In addition, many women in south Asia chew tobacco. Tobacco causes negative effects on a person’s health as soon as he/she starts using it in any form either regularly or occasionally. Tobacco kills both men and women but sex-specific differences exist.

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  • Namratha Kulkarni, 2017. "Women and Tobacco- An Overview," Current Trends in Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 2(5), pages 91-96, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jctbeb:v:2:y:2017:i:5:p:91-96
    DOI: 10.19080/CTBEB.2017.02.555599
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