• Roll-your-own cigarettes are more natural than factory made ones (both are equally harmful) • Air pollution is the cause of lung cancer and not cigarettes • If you quit smoking, you will gain weight (with a good diet and exercise plan, you won’t) • Smoking a couple of cigarettes a day isn’t harmful • Cigarettes help people de-stress (it is the harmful substances in cigarettes that relaxes a smoker) • Expensive cigarettes are not as harmful as cheaper ones or beedies • Cigarettes are safer than chewing tobacco • It is safe to smoke menthol, or low-tar cigarettes (smokers who use these tend to smoke more cigarettes)
• A cigarette contains 4800 chemicals, 69 of which are cancer triggers • One person dies every six seconds due to tobacco • India has 12 crores of tobacco users (includes smokers and tobacco chewers) • Every 9th Indian uses tobacco • One third of those who die due to tobacco are children who have been exposed to passive smoke • Medical costs of treating tobacco related diseases are about 90 crores a year
Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.
Chennai – 044 4000 6000 • Trichy – Cantonment – 0431 4077777 • Trichy – Heartcity – 0431 4003500 • Trichy – Tennur – 0431 4022555 • Hosur – 04344 272727 • Salem – 0427 2677777 • Tirunelveli – 0462 4006000 • Bengaluru – 080 6801 6801
