Have You Tried These Everyday Actions for Better Health?
Do not smoke and do not use any other types of tobacco or nicotine products: Tobacco is deadly in any form. Smoked tobacco products, including water pipes, contain over 7000 chemicals, including at least 250 chemicals known to be toxic or to cause cancer. Use of smokeless tobacco products can result in serious, sometimes fatal, health problems. Lifelong tobacco smokers lose at least 10 years of life on average. Tobacco use or exposure to tobacco smoking affects almost all organs of the human body and has a negative impact on health across the life course.
Learn more about the harms of tobacco use in the WHO/Europe factsheet linked on this webpage.
For your health, less alcohol is better, none is best: Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, dependence-producing substance. Alcohol consumption is causally linked to over 200 health conditions and other risks, including liver diseases, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, road injuries, violence and suicide. For all of these, there is a direct link between the amount of alcohol consumed and the likelihood of illness, injury or death – the more alcohol you drink, the higher the risk.
Excerpted from the World Health Organization
