HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Smoking Cessation, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Psychoactive Drug
12 Jan 2016
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1 person dies every 6 seconds due to to tobacco. Tobacco accounts for 1 in 10 adult deaths. Current uses will die of a tobacco related disease. 2. by 2030, tobacco will kill 8 million people/year mostly from low/middle income countries. There are 1 billion smokers worldwide; nearly 80% of smokers worldwide live in low/middle income countries where burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest -- depriving families of income, raising cost of healthcare, and hindering economic development. 3. until 1980"s, u. s. supplied tobacco, now 85% comes from the global south where tobacco, child labour and green tobacco sickness are major problems. Green tobacco sickness: tobacco leaves rub against skin while harvested, allowing nicotine to be absorbed in such large quantities causing sickness. 4. the global share of agricultural land devoted to tobacco is <1%, but tobacco agriculture accounts for 2-4% of global deforestation. About 3kg of wood to flue cure 1kg of tobacco.
