Welcome to all the viewers observing World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The Strategic Institute for Public Health Education and Research (SIPHER) is conducting a month-long campaign to spread awareness among tobacco vendors about anti-tobacco laws and tobacco product waste (TPW) creating detrimental environmental consequences. The institute is sensitizing medical professionals about the importance of ASK, ADVISE, and REFER with all their tobacco-using patients.
All of us are stakeholders in tobacco control as it is the most important preventable cause of NCDs and kills 13.5 lakh persons in India alone. ## Tobacco Burden on Healthcare ## Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. It is well known that smoking causes cancer but tobacco has other systemic adverse effects too, affecting the lungs, heart, blood vessels, reproductive organs, mouth, skin, eyes, and bones.…
