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• Education affects health the more educated a mother is, the less likely her children are to die before their fifth birthday.
• Educated women are also less likely to die in childbirth. (UNICEF, State of the World’s Children, 1999)
• Yet two out of three of the world’s illiterate people are women.
• Women and children are most likely to be affected by hunger. Seven out of ten of the world’s hungry are women and girls.
• Three out of every four victims of natural and man–made disasters are women and young children.
• Pregnant and nursing mothers who don’t have enough to eat have smaller, unhealthy babies.
• Unhealthy adults have trouble feeding their families. As a result, their children don’t get enough to eat, and the hunger trap ensnares another generation of hungry poor.
• Tobacco claims around ten lakh lives in India annually. Nicotine’s immediate effect on the body includes damage to the central nervous system, increased rate of heart beats, increased blood pressure and in the long run, lung cancer and coronary heart disease.
• Intake of pan masala causes oral sub mucous fibrosis which is a high risk pre–cancerous condition. Aggressive advertising and introduction of aluminum foil packets have given a fillip to the sale of pan masala. Today, there are one hundred and fifty pan masala plants in the country.
• Smoking or chewing tobacco leaves results in a chemical dependency on nicotine that is similar to addiction to heroin or cocaine.
• Every year twenty lakh youngsters join the ever–growing community of tobacco users in India.
• According to WHO estimates, thirty lakh people die the world over every year from this man–made disaster. In other words, tobacco is responsible for one death every ten seconds. In India, it is responsible for one in every five deaths. Whereas in developed countries there is a downward trend.
• Twenty percent of the total tobacco–related deaths are from developing countries. Forty–one percent men and twenty one percent women in industrialized countries and fifty percent men and eight percent women in developing countries consume tobacco in its several forms.




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