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e. It affects the active life of the people.
f. It may lead to misunderstanding between husband and wife.
g. It may drive an individual towards criminal activities like theft, robbery, kidnapping,
rape, etc.

Preventive Measures of Bad Health Habits
a. Avoid bad companions
b. Create healthy and recreational environment in the society
c. Limit the use of mobile, internet, television, etc.
d. Parents should be the examples by creating friendly atmosphere at home
e. Provide training to the people to engage in productive activities
f. Engage in creative activities to spend the leisure time
g. Inform the police for legal action against the people having bad habits
h. Create social awareness through health education against any anti-social activity

9.6 Smoking and Narcotic Drugs
Smoking

Use of tobacco and tobacco products is widely done all over the world. It is also very
commonly done in Nepal. Smoking is the use of tobacco and tobacco products by
burning, chewing or sniffing. Cigarette, bidi, tamakhu, khaini, cigar, gutka, pan parag,
zarda etc. are the different forms of tobacco. Use of tobacco and tobacco products is the
cause of different types of diseases like heart attack, heart stroke, high blood pressure,
asthma, cancer, etc. According to WHO, 50 lakhs of people in the world die every year
due to smoking. The smoker have 3 times more chances of heart disease, 1.5 times more
chances of stroke and also COPD than the non-smokers. Tobacco contains about 4000
toxic chemicals including 43 known carcinogens. Carcinogens are the chemicals that
cause cancer. The use of tobacco not only harms the users but also the non users.

Fig: 27
Smoking cigarette Smoking hukka

a. Causes of Smoking
• Pressure the friends
• Imitation of the family members where all the members smoke
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