TOBACCO & WOMEN...

1. There has been an increase in prevalence among females for both smoking and smokeless tobacco


2. Women who consume 3’cigraettes per day double their risk, not only of heart attacks but also of death from other causes
   
3. Mishri use, which is common in women can lead to low birth weight babies and a reproductive effect of lower male to female sex ratio


4. When pregnant women smoke, carbon monoxide and nicotine passes into their lungs and blood stream, reducing the oxygen supply to their unborn baby. This means that their babies are:
   a) more likely to suffer from asthma attacks, chest infections and colds in later life
   b) may likely to be born prematurely
   c) more likely to be born underweight


5. Paan chewing among women in India has made oral cancer more common than breast cancer