Question

1. Read the following passage carefully.

Everyone knows that smoking and chewing tobacco is bad for health, yet 250 million people in India- almost one fourth of the country’s population consume some form of tobacco. “People think they can give up tobacco use whenever they want. But it’s not that easy. Nicotine is an addictive drug,” health minister Dr. Ambumani Ramadoss told the Hindustan Times.

The World Health Organization links smoking to 25 cancers of head and neck, urinary bladder, kidneys, cervix, pancreas and colon, to name just a few. Smoking is also a major risk factor for several other diseases such as chronic bronchitis, heart disease, stroke, impotence and premature death.

“Most people link smoking to cancers, but it is the biggest cause of heart disease. Smoking increases the risk of clot formation in the blood, which can block arteries and cause heart attack even in healthy people,” says Dr. R.R. Kashiwal, Director, Cardiology, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre. “Lifestyle changes don’t help much if a person continues smoking,” he adds.

Smoking causes about 30 percent of all cancer deaths (including 90 percent of lung cancer deaths). According to Indian Council of Medical Research, one million die of tobacco use in India every year. Reducing tobacco use is naturally a big priority for the health minister.

Despite the cigarette and other tobacco products (packaging and labeling) rules banning smoking in public places and sale to minors in India, the number of smokers is going up each year. “About ten million children under the age of 15 are addicted to tobacco in India,” says Ramadoss.

The WHO estimates that of every 1,000 tobacco users today, 500 will die of a tobacco related disease, 250 of them in their middle age. The current tobacco consumption trend in India indicates a shoot up from 1.4 percent of deaths in 1990 to 13.3 percent in 2020.



A proposal to carry graphic and direct health warnings such as “Tobacco Kills” _ on all packages has been postponed indefinitely because of pressure from the food industry, which claims farmers and poor workers will lose jobs. But thousands of lives will be saved if the new warnings drive home the health hazards of tobacco use more effectively. “The statutory warning currently carried on tobacco products is in English, a language that a majority of the population cannot read or understand,” says Ramadoss, who will start a campaign to make workplaces smoke-free this year to protect non-smokers from second hand smoke.

Most people would stop tobacco if they knew what goes into making a cigarette. It has formaldehyde, the chemical used to pressure animals in chemistry labs, cynamide found in rat poison; and nicotine, which is a powerful insecticide. Studies have shown that bidis are even more harmful than cigarettes.

“Tobacco is the second biggest cause of death in the world and kills 5 million people- one in 10 adult deaths each year. If that is not reason enough to stop its use, I don’t know what is,” says Ramadoss.

a. On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it in points using headings and subheadings. Use recognizable abbreviations (minimum four). Also suggest a suitable title.

(b) Give a summary of the passage in about 80 words.​

Answer 1

smoking and chewing tobacco can cause very dangerous disease . every day 500 people die because of smoking or chewing tobacco. the current tobacco consumption trend increased a lot .

Answer 2

Answer:

English : of, relating to, or characteristic of England, the English people, or the English language. English. noun. Definition of English (Entry 2 of 4) 1a : the language of the people of England and the U.S. and many areas now or formerly under British control.