Historique
Rapport
The tobacco health toll
Auteur(s) :
WHO Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean
Année
2005
Page(s) :
39 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Éditeur(s) :
Genève : OMS / WHO
ISBN :
978-92-9021-443-4
Refs biblio. :
219
Domaine :
Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette
Discipline :
PAT (Pathologie organique / Organic pathology)
Résumé :
This publication sums up and simplifies the answers to the questions that the public, individuals and special groups have, and is intended to fill the wide but often underestimated gap in the publics knowledge concerning the vast spectrum of tobacco-related health hazards. It is expected therefore, that this publication will be of interest to people from all walks of life, including school and university students, physicians and nurses, as well as the public in general. This publication lists the range of diseases and illnesses caused through smoking, and shows how the harmful effects of smoking can damage nearly every organ and system in the human body. Women and smoking deserve special attention as a result of the negative and serious health impacts on smoking women and their offspring, in addition to particular health concerns related to the use of contraceptives and womens frequent involuntary exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Children, are a large and significant segment of the population who are involuntarily exposed to the harm that tobacco can cause. Society needs to acknowledge the harm that environmental tobacco smoke exposure causes to the health of children and exert efforts to protect them from exposure to this smoke.
Affiliation :
Egypt