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Annually, the tobacco industry costs the world:
🔵600 million trees
🔵200 000 hectares of land
🔵22 billion tonnes of water
🔵84 million tonnes of CO2.
🔵& more than 8 million human lives
#SayNoToTobacco! It threatens our environment and our health.
🔵600 million trees
🔵200 000 hectares of land
🔵22 billion tonnes of water
🔵84 million tonnes of CO2.
🔵& more than 8 million human lives
#SayNoToTobacco! It threatens our environment and our health.
Tobacco takes up to 9 months to mature, making it difficult for smallholder farmers to grow food crops within the same year.
It also degrades the soil, depletes its essential nutrients and decreases its fertility, making it difficult to grow food.
#NoTobacco #TobaccoExposed
It also degrades the soil, depletes its essential nutrients and decreases its fertility, making it difficult to grow food.
#NoTobacco #TobaccoExposed
349M people🌍 are facing acute food insecurity, many of them living in low & middle-income countries where tobacco cultivation has increased in the last decade.
Planting tobacco:
🔴reduces soil fertility & productivity
🔴limits capacity to grow other crops
🔴leads to more hunger
Planting tobacco:
🔴reduces soil fertility & productivity
🔴limits capacity to grow other crops
🔴leads to more hunger
Remember puffing on red-tipped Phantom Sweet Cigarettes as a child, to look cool?
With huge advertising, smoking was made a fashionably acceptable social behaviour, at work, in bars, cinemas
homes etc; imposing all activities being incomplete without a #Cigarette !
#nosmoking
With huge advertising, smoking was made a fashionably acceptable social behaviour, at work, in bars, cinemas
homes etc; imposing all activities being incomplete without a #Cigarette !
#nosmoking
Smoking #cigarette was legitimated, celebrated & glamourized on Hollywood screen through stars like Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney
Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart,Lauren Bacall Marlene Dietrich etc, ensuring that it’d never lose its sophisticated lofty significance
Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart,Lauren Bacall Marlene Dietrich etc, ensuring that it’d never lose its sophisticated lofty significance
#Cigarette was ‘imposed’ across all social classes & women!
In 1925, #Marlboro was introduced as a woman’s cigarette, ‘Mild as May’
The poison was thus transported to the rest of the world!
By 17th cent, 🇮🇳, China,SE Asia
Middle East, WAfrica started growing #tobacco
#nosmoking
In 1925, #Marlboro was introduced as a woman’s cigarette, ‘Mild as May’
The poison was thus transported to the rest of the world!
By 17th cent, 🇮🇳, China,SE Asia
Middle East, WAfrica started growing #tobacco
#nosmoking
The aerosols from e-cigarettes contain toxic substances that can cause
🚨 cancer
🫀 cardiovascular diseases
🫁 lung disorders
🧠 damage to children’s brain development
#CommitToQuit e-cigarettes now for a healthier life!
Here's how 👉bit.ly/3iWJGP9
🚨 cancer
🫀 cardiovascular diseases
🫁 lung disorders
🧠 damage to children’s brain development
#CommitToQuit e-cigarettes now for a healthier life!
Here's how 👉bit.ly/3iWJGP9
Countries around the 🌏🌍🌎 are making progress in the fight against tobacco but some still need to address new products such as e-cigarettes.
The latest WHO global tobacco control report explains 👉bit.ly/2VeA3D8
The latest WHO global tobacco control report explains 👉bit.ly/2VeA3D8
Don't get hooked❗️
E-cigarettes are presented in thousands of appealing flavours and with misleading claims to hook children and adolescents.
Read more 👉bit.ly/2VeA3D8
E-cigarettes are presented in thousands of appealing flavours and with misleading claims to hook children and adolescents.
Read more 👉bit.ly/2VeA3D8
All forms of tobacco use are harmful, including heated tobacco products!
The tobacco industry is aggressively marketing heated tobacco products & e-cigarettes, including to young people, risking a generation hooked to nicotine.
bit.ly/303Ttux #TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco
The tobacco industry is aggressively marketing heated tobacco products & e-cigarettes, including to young people, risking a generation hooked to nicotine.
bit.ly/303Ttux #TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco
Heated tobacco products are tobacco, which contain cancer-causing substances even in its natural form.
People who use heated tobacco products are exposed to toxic emissions from the products, & also expose bystanders to these toxic 2nd-hand emissions. bit.ly/3jJXkER
People who use heated tobacco products are exposed to toxic emissions from the products, & also expose bystanders to these toxic 2nd-hand emissions. bit.ly/3jJXkER
Some toxins are present at higher levels in heated tobacco products than in conventional 🚬 smoke and the effects of exposure to these are unknown. bit.ly/3jJXkER
#TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco
#TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco
"Today, WHO is launching the Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco, which aims to help the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users quit during the #COVID19 pandemic"-@DrTedros #NoTobacco bit.ly/3iRzHcP
"This initiative will help people freely access the resources they need to quit tobacco, like nicotine replacement therapy and access to a digital health worker for advice"-@DrTedros #NoTobacco bit.ly/3iRzHcP
"Although #COVID19 is giving us many reasons to grieve, today we’re also celebrating a public health victory.
Yesterday, the @wto ruled that #Australia’s laws on plain packaging for tobacco products are justified, and are not unfair restrictions on trade"-@DrTedros
Yesterday, the @wto ruled that #Australia’s laws on plain packaging for tobacco products are justified, and are not unfair restrictions on trade"-@DrTedros
"Tobacco kills more than 8 million people every year, and Australia was the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging, without branding, in 2012. Several other countries have since introduced similar laws"-@DrTedros bit.ly/37pVmnq #NoTobacco #TobaccoExposed
"We now have more than 6 million cases of #COVID19 across the 🌍 and have lost more than 370,000 people to the virus"-@DrTedros
"As we work with governments across the 🌍 to suppress the virus and accelerate science around diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines, we also continue to respond to other health emergencies and new disease outbreaks"-@DrTedros
Here's the #Twitter coverage for our upcoming #webinar titled "#InsideImplementation: Youth & #TobaccoControl policies" with Dr. Swasticharan from @MoHFW_INDIA & Dr. Bhutia from @salaambbayorg. Many thanks to our panelists; moderation by @dr_hebbar & @prashanthns
Dr. Swasticharan begins with the history of the #tobacco plant; 69 carcinogenic chemicals in #tobacco; even in smokeless tobacco 28 known carcinogens; colonial origins of #tobacco and global spread #insideimplementation #COTPA #tobaccoexpossed #WNTD2020
in 13-15 year age group nearly one-fifth are users; many in this age-group buy from store (47%) (a violation under #COTPA) #insideimplementation #COTPA #tobaccoexpossed #WNTD2020
It's #WorldNoTobaccoDay! 🚭
Tobacco products kill over 8 million people every year. The industry is targeting youth to replace people that their products are killing so they can make a killing in profits 💰 📈.
It’s time to #SpeakOut! #TobaccoExposed
👉 bit.ly/NoTobacco2020
Tobacco products kill over 8 million people every year. The industry is targeting youth to replace people that their products are killing so they can make a killing in profits 💰 📈.
It’s time to #SpeakOut! #TobaccoExposed
👉 bit.ly/NoTobacco2020
🚬 tactics to attract youth:
✔15,000+ flavours to attract children/adolescents, in smokeless tobacco, shisha, e-cigarettes
✔Promotion & free sample distribution at popular events for youth
✔Advertising/placement on movies, TV, social media with paid influencers
✔15,000+ flavours to attract children/adolescents, in smokeless tobacco, shisha, e-cigarettes
✔Promotion & free sample distribution at popular events for youth
✔Advertising/placement on movies, TV, social media with paid influencers
Break free from the tobacco & related industries’ manipulation by becoming educated on their tactics and the harm caused by their products. 🚭
#TobaccoExposed 👉 bit.ly/NoTobacco2020
#SpeakOut #WorldNoTobaccoDay
#TobaccoExposed 👉 bit.ly/NoTobacco2020
#SpeakOut #WorldNoTobaccoDay
WHO calls to #SpeakOut and stop tobacco and related industries exploitation of children and young people
👉 bit.ly/2XgEn3m
#TobaccoExposed
👉 bit.ly/2XgEn3m
#TobaccoExposed
Every year the tobacco industry invests over $9B to advertise its products. Increasingly, it is targeting young people with nicotine & tobacco products in a bid to replace the 8 million people that its products kill every year 👉 bit.ly/2XgEn3m
#TobaccoExposed #SpeakOut
#TobaccoExposed #SpeakOut
Even during #COVID19, tobacco and related industries persist by pushing products that limit people’s ability to fight the virus & recover from the disease. 👉 bit.ly/2XgEn3m
#TobaccoExposed #SpeakOut
#TobaccoExposed #SpeakOut
🚭 The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars every year to encourage you to use their products.
Find out how in the thread 👇 & here 👉 bit.ly/3ezhUo7
#TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco #WNTD2020 #SpeakOut
Find out how in the thread 👇 & here 👉 bit.ly/3ezhUo7
#TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco #WNTD2020 #SpeakOut
🎒 Distributing branded, promotional products is just one way the tobacco industry tries to influence your choice.
#TobaccoExposed #WNTD2020 #NoTobacco #SpeakOut
#TobaccoExposed #WNTD2020 #NoTobacco #SpeakOut
🎟️ Funding and promoting events is another way that the tobacco industry tries to promote its products.
#TobaccoExposed #WNTD2020 #NoTobacco #SpeakOut
#TobaccoExposed #WNTD2020 #NoTobacco #SpeakOut
Smoking can increase your chance of severe #COVID19. #SpeakOut & join #TobaccoExposed dance with Quang Đăng and Minh Quân ahead of World #NoTobacco Day, 31 May!
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Using tobacco products can increase your chance of getting #COVID19
❗️Bringing your👐to your👄can transfer the virus into your body
❗️Sharing tobacco products can transmit the virus between people
❗️Tobacco weakens your respiratory system making you more vulnerable to the virus
❗️Bringing your👐to your👄can transfer the virus into your body
❗️Sharing tobacco products can transmit the virus between people
❗️Tobacco weakens your respiratory system making you more vulnerable to the virus
Smoking damages your lungs and other parts of your body, and it makes you more vulnerable to #COVID19 infection. It is the right time to 🚭 quit smoking for a safer and better health 💪 bit.ly/33JFVo0
#coronavirus
#coronavirus
The tobacco industry is creating controversy & confusion about the risk of nicotine & tobacco product use and #COVID19.
FACT: Health experts have warned that smokers with COVID-19 likely suffer more serious conditions that could lead to premature death
#TobaccoExposed
FACT: Health experts have warned that smokers with COVID-19 likely suffer more serious conditions that could lead to premature death
#TobaccoExposed
