According to the World Health Organization more than half billion young people are being targeted by the tobacco companies as they associating smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles.

The World Health Organization explains that tobacco companies are just cashing the innocence of young people who are greatly influenced by attractive advertising and have begun to reckon smoking a must for an elegant lifestyle. W.H.O is going to mark World No Tobacco Day on Saturday.

Shigeru Omi, W.H.O’s regional director for the Western Pacific states that there is a flood of messages through billboards, newspaper, radio and television ads and all of them intend to befool young people to try their first cigarette.

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Genetic Connection entices People to Smoke:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists claim they have identified a genetic connection that entices people to consume more cigarettes and makes them believe that they can’t get rid of smoking and ultimately it be the cause of lung cancer.

The findings of three different teams of Scientists:

The findings of three different teams of scientists have formed a case strong enough to the genetic support in the direction of smoking and how genetics and cigarettes act together to be the reason of cancer.Their discoveries also provide some more suitable cures to say goodbye to smoking.

Christopher Amos’s point of view:

Christopher Amos, a professor of epidemiology at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and author of one of the studies, says, “This is kind of a double-whammy gene,” He further adds “It also makes you more likely to be dependent on smoking and less likely to quit smoking.” (more…)

“Five million people were killed due to smoking in the year of 2000 alone and half the deaths of the smokers aged 30 to 69” – researchers from Harvard University and the University of Queensland have calculated.

The major cause of death was cardiovascular disease. The heart disease alone killed over 670,000 in the developing counties and 1 million people in the developed countries. Lung cancer due to smoking killed over 500,000 people in the developed world. Chronic obstructive airways disease (COPD), bronchitis has also killed more people.

“We must not forget that there are real people with these statistics like mothers, fathers, and loved-ones who have suffered lost up to 30 years of life because of their smoking addiction”. - Said Amanda Sandford, of the anti-smoking charity Ash.

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Oral cancer is a very pathetic disorder with men and women, especially with the case of people those who have the habit of smoking and tobacco usage. We can keep away from certain life threatening cancers with healthy life style.

Rates of oral cancer in the United States increases alarmingly. Oral or pharyngeal cancer will be diagnosed with more than 34,000 Americans this year alone. This can kill one person for every twenty four hours. Among 34,000 diagnosed patients only half of them will live after five years.

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