The Department of Biology at the College of Science for Women has organized a scientific symposium entitled (Tobacco Health, Environmental and Social Harms) aimed to educate students about the economic, health, social and environmental harms of smoking and the lecturers indicated 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, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and many types of cancer, especially lung cancer, laryngeal and mouth cancer, bladder cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
The lecturers also stated that peripheral arterial disease causes high blood pressure and the effects that occur to smokers depend on the number of years of smoking and on how much a person smokes. During the discussion, the harms of electronic smoking were also addressed, as well as the impact of passive smoking on non-smokers in the same place, as well as clarifying the effect on the teeth, as the continuation of smoking causes damage to the gums and teeth gradually, as well as the difficulty of healing cases of oral and dental surgery, and presentations and illustrations were presented for pathological cases caused by tobacco smokers eating cigarettes and hookah shisha continuously.