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Written By: Palak Juneja | Updated : May 31, 2016 10:40 AM IST
J P Nadda, the Health Minister launches National Tobacco Quit line, 1800112356, today on the eve of World No Tobacco Day which aims at counseling and guiding tobacco addicts. 52.3% of the Indian population is open to secondhand smoke at home, 29.9% at workplace and 29% at public places, according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS-India 2010) released recently. Passive smoking is as injurious to health as is active smoking. With the air quality degrading, it is high time that the level of smoking tobacco is cut down.
Launched National Tobacco Quitline (1800-11- 2356) today on the eve of World No Tobacco day. pic.twitter.com/zEPmKvw1Wv
Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) May 30, 2016
Smoking has an adverse effect on your health and it also establishes the risk of many diseases such as chronic lung disorder, heart diseases, cancer. Everybody must have told you cigarettes contain nicotine but did you know that it also contains these 10 dangerous chemicals.
Smoking not only hampers your mental health and psychological health, but your physical health also deteriorates. Read these 10 reasons to know that smoking is bad for you. Be it the stress levels, random mood swings, boredom or craving for nicotine, everything is subject to your addiction to nicotine which is leading you to the unending path of crevasse of death. Find out the 25 things that happen inside your body when you smoke.
Quit smoking using these natural remedies before smoking makes you quit your life. If you or your loved ones need help to quit smoking, the initiative taken by the health ministry to quit tobacco will hold your hand and take you forward in quitting tobacco. All that it takes is a step to call the National Tobacco Quit line.
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