The tobacco body
The tobacco body
Overview
Tobacco is deadly in any form. Smoked tobacco products, including waterpipes, contain over 7000 chemicals, including at least 250 chemicals known to be toxic or to cause cancer. Use of smokeless tobacco products can result in serious – sometimes fatal – health problems. Exposure to second-hand smoke has also been implicated in adverse health outcomes, including death. Newer tobacco products contain similar chemicals to traditional tobacco products and are harmful to health.
Lifelong tobacco smokers lose at least 10 years of life on average. Globally, over 22 000 people die from tobacco use or second-hand smoke exposure every day — one person every 4 seconds. The Tobacco Body poster visually depicts the various ways tobacco use harms almost every organ of the human body.
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