12 % use “Stop

tobacco
Smoking, if
not today then
tomorrow”
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Around 1.33 Billion
Tobacco users worldwide ----- Cigarette -- Smoked form
Out of every 100 Boys
82% - MALES and Girls aged 13- 15
Cigar – Smoked form
14 % use
18% - FEMALE tobacco Snuff – Finely ground Tobacco

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Chewable forms of tobacco

----- ----- There are 7000

Pipe smoking
toxic chemicals in
tobacco smoke.

Smoking Virus can be spread People breathing in Water pipe

tobacco often when the user spits second-hand smoke users often
involves some out the excess saliva are at greater risk not share the same
hand to mouth produced during the only of Covid but also pipe increasing
contact. chewing process respiratory tract the risk of
infection, asthma etc. transmission
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Tobacco causes many serious health

conditions like respiratory diseases.

Tobacco compromises the immune

system by disrupting the epithelial lining
therefore decreasing the mucociliary
action.
.
The virus will latch to all those extra
ACE2 receptors found in smokers, destroy
healthy lungs cells and multiply quickly
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 The researchers have proposed  that
nicotine attaches to the ACE2
receptors, thereby preventing the virus
from attaching and potentially
reducing the amount of virus that can
get into a person’s lung cells
COVID attacks the lungs and develops
threat to those who use tobacco. Tobacco usage can increase the nitric


oxide production which may potentially

inhibit replication or entry of SARS
CoV2
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----- ‘’If getting through
COVID-19 is like
running a 100-meter
dash, smokers are having
to carry sandbags with
them while trying to
finish the race’’
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----- -----------------------  Tobacco market is having a
----------- neutral impact due to the
 Study of 323 hospitalized patients China,
pandemic.
reported a statistically significant association
 In fact over the years the
between smoking and severity of disease.
market is said to have an
 27 observational studies found that smokers
incremental growth rate of
constituted 1.4-18.5% of hospitalized adults.
------------------------------------------------------- 8.01%.

----- tobacco users?

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1) Quit tobacco use – ----- 2) Constantly sanitize and avoid

Within 20 min - elevated heart rate and blood touching your mouth
pressure drop 3) Maintain social distancing
After 12 hours - Carbon monoxide levels gets
back to normal.
4) Nicotine replacement therapies
Within 2 - 12 weeks - circulation improves and
lung function increases.

After 1-9 months - coughing and shortness of

breath decreases