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smoking

By the year 2025, 500 million people worldwide will have died from a tobacco-related illness.

Did you know?
• There are over 4,000 chemicals, including ammonia (floor/toilet cleaner), arsenic (rat poison), formaldehyde (body tissue preserver), and hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison) contained in cigarette smoke.

• Chewing tobacco and bidis are as dangerous as cigarette smoking.

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activity:
Analyze a scene from a film where the hero/heroine is smoking. Does smoking in films encourage smoking in society? Write a debate expressing your viewpoint on this issue.

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smoking in movies (video clip)

Scenes from DON (Hindi Movie). Part of a selection of movies about smoking by the Burning Brain Society (NGO).

Resource Centre For Tobacco Free India

Resource Centre for Tobacco Free India  is a website on all tobacco information related to India.

Read the latest new stories, Learn about grassroots efforts for tobacco control advocacy in various Indian states, and view information resources on this topic.

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 is The WHO’s first comprehensive report that tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and about what the world’s nations are doing to address this public health crisis.