Tobacco smoke enormously harmful to your health: Dr. Sandhu

Ludhiana, May 23, 2016: To celebrate “No Tobacco Day” Fortis Hospital Ludhiana organised a awareness programme in DCM Presidency, Fortis School Health programme was also launched on the sidelines of this educative event. Mr.Vivan Singh Gill, Facility Director, Fortis Hospital Ludhiana was the Chief Guest of the event. Welcome Note was given by Mr.Anirudh Gupta, CEO DCM Presidency.
The positive message brought forward to students was Tobacco smoke is enormously harmful to your health. There’s no safe way to smoke. Replacing your cigarette with a cigar, pipe, or hookah won’t help you avoid the health risks associated with tobacco products. Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients. When they burn, they generate more than 7,000 chemicals, according to the American Lung Association said Mr. Gill.
Giving more information Dr. Ajay Pal Sandhu said, many of those chemicals are poisonous and at least 69 of them can cause cancer. Many of the same ingredients are found in cigars and in tobacco used in pipes and hookahs. According to the National Cancer Institute, cigars have a higher level of carcinogens, toxins, and tar than cigarettes.
Eighth and ninth graders were found to be the groups in which the smoking ban had the greatest smoking decline. “This demonstrated that the smoking intervention was most effective at prevention in early adolescence rather than late adolescence,” said Dr. Sandhu.
While answering the question Dr. Sandhu said, “E-cigarettes threaten to harm society and need to be banned immediately. A mere change in name does not mean that this cigarette is not harmful and is better than the normal paper cigarette. Studies are underway to establish the effect of e-cigarettes on smokers and non-smokers and their level of addiction.
When you inhale smoke, you’re taking in substances that can damage your lungs. Over time, your lungs lose their ability to filter harmful chemicals. Coughing can’t clear out the toxins sufficiently, so these toxins get trapped in the lungs. Smokers have a higher risk of respiratory infections, colds, and flu.
School health programme has been launched by Fortis Hospital Ludhiana
Vote of thanks was given by Principle Ms. Nupur Nutan.