22/06/2021
Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the world. Every year around 95000 people in Africa die from smoking, with many more living with debilitating smoking-related illnesses.Smoking increases your risk of developing more than 50 serious health conditions.Some may be fatal, and others can cause irreversible long-term damage to your health.
You can become ill:
1) if you smoke yourself
2) if people around you smoke (passive smoking)
Smoking health risks:
Smoking causes around 7 out of every 10 cases of lung cancer (70%).It also causes cancer in many other parts of the body, including the mouth, throat, voice box (larynx)
oesophagus (the tube between your mouth and stomach) bladder, bowel, cervix, kidney, liver, stomach and pancreas.