Every year on MAY -31 we celebrate World No Tobacco Day. the theme for this year is "Tobacco: Threat To our Environment", which aims to highlight the environmental impact of the entire tobacco cycle cultivation for generations. it was initiated in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and diseases it causes.
Tobacco kills 600 million Trees and more than 8 million people every year and destroys our environment, further harm human health through production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste. WHO data show 60000000 trees chopped down to make tobacco products like cigarettes, bidi, and others. lots of tone co2 emissions released into the air increase the global temperatures and use the huge amount of water to make the cigarettes.
according to the stepwise survey in 2019, 28.9% of adults aged 15-69 years (48.3% of men, 11.6% of women) currently used either smoked tobacco or smokeless tobacco products. the average age at initiation of tobacco use in Nepal is 17-18 years. if we provide adequate knowledge about the harm of tobacco use at the school level, we can improve the tobacco creating harmful diseases and cancers.
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