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Tobacco and Public Health Hazards

Md. Shairul Mashreque
Professor
Department of Public administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

State always concern about health of the population. "Public health is an organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities and individuals." (1920, C.E.A. Winslow cited in Wikipedia) It is concerned with threats to the heals overall of a community based on population health analysis. So public health narratives in tandem with tobacco use reveal the amount of concern shown by the national and international agencies. Tobacco generates numerous diseases,some being killers. Campaign against tobacco use in cigarette and betel leaf casting disater ought to be reinforced . Public health professionals monitor and diagnose the health concerns of entire communities and promote healthy practices and behaviours to ensure that populations stay healthy. One way to illustrate the breadth of public health is to look at some notable public health campaigns: l Vaccination and control of infectious diseases l Motor-vehicle safety l Safer workplaces l Safer and healthier foods l Safe drinking water l Healthier mothers and babies and access to family planning l Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke l Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard. The term global public health recognizes that, as a result of globalization, forces that affect public health can and do come from outside state boundaries and that responding to public health issues now requires attention to cross-border health risks, including access to dangerous products and environmental change (WHO).

Keywords: Tobacco Cultivation, Environmental Problems, Land Use Alteration, Spatio-temporal Research, Public health, Tobacco, Hazard.

Location: In Bangladesh

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Program Area: Risk Management in Agriculture

Commodity: Tobacco, Health hazard

Objectives:

To determine the Tobacco and Public health hazards

Methodology:

Needless to say smoking is injurious to health. There is a statutory warning like this on cigarette packet. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 'Smoking Harms nearly every organ of the body causing auses many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general. Quitting smoking lowers your risk for smoking-related diseases and can add years to your life'. Quitting smoking is one of the best ways you can protect yourself from developing active TB disease. Quitting smoking will not only decrease your risk of developing TB disease, but it will also help your treatment for latent TB infection. If you are looking for counseling to help you stop smoking, your physician is the best professional to seek advice from. He or she can help you find a program or treatment that can help you quit. Smoking is associated with more severe disease and an increased death rate so quitting is the best action you can take when you are diagnosed with TB. In fact, up to one in every five deaths from TB could be avoided if the individuals did not smoke. After you quit, most immune system problems caused by smoking can be reversed. Speak to your physician about cessation counseling and how you can quit. Exposure to second-hand smoke increases the risks of both TB infection and the development of active TB disease among children and adults. For children and young adults, the more second-hand smoke they are exposed to, the higher the risk of developing TB. In addition to endangering their own health, TB patients who smoke in the home are also placing their families at a greater risk of TB infection. It is very important to keep your home smoke-free. In rural Bangladesh and also among working forces in urban areas skoking BIRI is rampant. So TB patients are plenty in number. This problem needs to be addressed. Bangladesh has hospital for TB patients with proper treatment facilities. Many once admitted have become rid of TB after a long treatment.

Source of Information: Social Change, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2015, pp. 86-98, @ 2015 YPSA; ISSN : 1997-938X

Article Link (Online Journal): www.ypsa.org/social-change

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Achievement/Findings:

So public health narratives in tandem with tobacco use reveal the amount of concern shown by the national and international agencies. Tobacco generates numerous diseases,some being killers. Campaign against tobacco use in cigarette and betel leaf casting disater ought to be reinforced . Public health professionals monitor and diagnose the health concerns of entire communities and promote healthy practices and behaviours to ensure that populations stay healthy. One way to illustrate the breadth of public health is to look at some notable public health campaigns: l Vaccination and control of infectious diseases l Motor-vehicle safety l Safer workplaces l Safer and healthier foods l Safe drinking water l Healthier mothers and babies and access to family planning l Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke l Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard. The term global public health recognizes that, as a result of globalization, forces that affect public health can and do come from outside state boundaries and that responding to public health issues now requires attention to cross-border health risks, including access to dangerous products and environmental change (WHO).

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