Smoking Tobacco: A Significant Cause for Cancer

Smoking tobacco products is one of the most significant factors causing cancer to the extent that 30% of all cancer casualties is as to smoking cigars.

According to WebDa, lung cancer is the most prevalent one in men and has the second rank among women. If a person smoke 25 cigars a day, s/he is 25 times more prone to the danger of lung cancer. The earlier the people start smoking, the higher the risk of their being inflicted to lung cancer.

Dr. Hamidreza Bahrami, the deputy of Health and Hygiene Administration of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, asserted: “today considering the increase in tobacco product consumption in the societies, new findings are released about the side effects and problems caused by tobacco”.

“As to the increase in the consumption of these materials, we are witnessing the prevalence of tobacco consumption among the young generation, especially young girls and women. Such that this intricate problem has not only brought about some health problems and caused various ailments, but also created social and economic problems”, averred Dr. Bahrami.

“Though according to the released statistics, among 121 countries in the world, Iran currently occupies the 67^th rank on daily cigar consumption among adults, unfortunately, the investigations report the increasing amount of tobacco consumption in the country”, he said.

The deputy of Health and Hygiene Administration of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences referred to the enactment of the comprehensive law of national Control and fight against tobacco products in 2006 and the measures undertaken to decrease tobacco consumption in the country and asserted that: it seems that issues like the advertisements of tobacco production companies, the increase in supply and distribution, introducing new tobacco products like fruit-tobacco mixes, the increase in family tension and social challenges and lack of adequate skills in individuals to control these tensions, and the disappearance of the feeling of indecency in using tobacco and its products,…have been much more powerful and increased the prevalence of tobacco products and their consumption in the country.

Dr. Bahrami Pointed out that the prospective goal assumed in the national document to control and prevent non-contagious diseases and dangerous factors related to them within 2015-2025 in the country is to achieve a 30% decrease in tobacco consumption.

He expressed hopes to undertake influential strides to decrease this consumption and stop the development of the very phenomenon with the efforts of officials and decision makers and compiling useful and practical programs.