The death toll due to tobacco use worldwide is higher than the total number of HIV / AIDS, TB, maternal mortality, accident, suicide, homicide and drug-related deaths. Corona virus has recently been associated with it.
Even during the Corona epidemic, tobacco companies are still trying to expand their harmful tobacco business. The reckless attitude of the tobacco company and the easy availability of tobacco products are hindering the effective control of tobacco. Tobacco companies have continued their production by collecting special permits during the Corona outbreak and putting their employees and tobacco workers at serious risk.
Corona virus infections can be fatal for some people, medical scientists say. It can also lead to pneumonia, shortness of breath and organ failure. People who have co-morbidity, or any other illness, may be more likely to be infected with the coronavirus. And if these people are infected, their risk of death is much higher. Smokers are one of them.
A study published in 'The New England Journal of Medicine' found that almost three times as many smokers were admitted to critical care units. They had to breathe artificially. Since then most of them have died. According to a study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), smoking a cigarette a day increases the risk of heart disease by 50 percent. The risk of stroke or bleeding in the brain also increases by 30 percent. In the case of women, the risk is even higher, at 56 percent. Due to Covid-19, there is a tendency in some countries to reduce the level of smoking among extra smokers, which they think reduces their risk.
The respiratory system is one of the components of the immune system. The body tries to keep the lungs moving by expelling the contaminants that enter the body with our breath. This keeps our body healthy. So when the performance of the lungs decreases naturally, the work of the lungs is disrupted. And the main goal of coronavirus is to make the lungs or respiratory system dysfunctional. So in any case, the goal of every person should be to keep the respiratory system healthy.
Tobacco use kills more than 8 million people worldwide each year. In addition, about one million more people, mostly children, have died as a result of secondhand smoke. .