The Department of Life Sciences at the College of Education for Pure Sciences organized a scientific symposium on (The Health and Social Harms of Tobacco (Smoking), delivered by (Asst. Lect. Zulfiqar Abbas Miteb). The symposium aimed to educate students about the harms of smoking and its economic, health, social, and environmental consequences. The lecturers explained that tobacco use often leads to diseases that affect the heart, liver, and lungs because smoking is one of the main risk factors for heart attacks, strokes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and many types of cancer especially lung cancer, cancer of the larynx and mouth, bladder cancer, and pancreatic cancer). It also causes peripheral arterial disease and high blood pressure, and the effects that occur in smokers depend on the number of years of smoking and how much the person smokes. The symposium also included topics on the harms of electronic smoking, as well as the effect of passive smoking on non-smokers in the same place, in addition to clarifying the effect on the teeth, as continued smoking causes gradual damage to the gums and teeth. It is also difficult to heal cases of oral and dental surgery. Presentations and illustrative pictures were presented of disease cases that cause It contains tobacco that is consumed continuously by smokers of cigarettes and shisha. The researcher called for attention to such topics because of the negative and harmful health effects that smoking causes to the health of the individual and then society, so that a healthy and safe society can be educated. To view the pictures:
