The Tobacco Menace In India
800,000 deaths every year are related to tobacco
Tobacco kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, homicide, suicide, motor vehicle
crashes, and fires combined!
150,000 cancers per year is caused in
150,000 cancers per year is caused in India due to tobacco.
4.2 million heart diseases every year
4.2 million heart diseases every year in Indians is caused by tobacco.
3.7 million lung diseases in every year
55,000 children every day in India
3.7 million lung diseases in every year
55,000 children every day in India start using tobacco
5 million children under the age of
5 million children under the age of fifteen are addicted to tobacco.
10%-40% of school students and
10%-40% of school students and 70% of students in colleges in Mumbai
chew gutka & paan masala.
142 million men and 72 million
women above the age of 15 years
142 million men and 72 million are tobacco consumers in the world.


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