Tobacco consumption is the global problem with 1.1 billion tobacco consumers in the world today. In a study conducted by the Indian Council for Medical Reasearch it is revealed that each patient suffering from a tobacco-related disease costs the country Rs 2.5 million through direct medicinal costs, absenteeism for treatment and loss of income due to premature death.
New research has found that smoking causes more breathing difficulties in women than in men. Women smokers reported higher rates of asthma than men, with the prevalence of asthma in women increasing with increasing numbers of cigarettes smoked. The asthma rate was more than one in 10 among those women smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day.The tobocco consumers not only affect their health but they affect others health also.
Smoking during pregnancy significantly increases the chances of the infant dying of sudden infant death syndrome, Spontaneous abortions, delivering a pre-mature baby, delivering a low birth-weight baby, impairing the child's long-term growth and intellectual development.
Based on the the calculation, published in the British Medical Journal, each cigarette cost 11 minutes of life.
so there is a urgent need for the women (including men) to quit smoking to save their lifes. They have to understand that they should not become fools to sacrifice their life for two- three minutes of instant hapiness they get by smoking.