Question

Government has recently taken series of steps to minimise cigarette smoking and tobacco chewing by people as these are injurious to health.
(a) List at least three steps taken by government to aware people about harmful effects of cigarette smoking and tobacco chewing.
(b) What is passive smoking?
​(c) List at least one chronic disease that occurs due to continuous use of tobacco.

Answer 1

(a) Three steps to minimise the use of cigarette smoking and tobacco chewing are -

• Restricting the age of buying these products to 18 years
• Advertisement in television regarding the side effects of use of these products.
• Printing warnings such as "Smoking is injurious to health" and certain images on packets of such products.

(b) The involuntary inhalation of smoke by one person from another person's cigarettes, cigars, or pipes is called as passive smoking.
(c) Continuous use of tobacco can lead to cancer of mouth.