HIV Patients With Tobacco Has Double Risk Of Death

Researchers at the University of York in the UK said that tobacco use is emerging as a 'silent killer' for HIV patients and is more common among HIV-positive people than HIV-negative individuals. With the use of good ARV medicines and regular taking of Medicines death in HIV patient has decreased markedly but now use of Tobacco has shown high mortality in HIV patients. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year, or 1 of every 5 deaths.

As per the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates, tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Now, scientists have…