🔆 Tobacco: A Global Health Crisis 📍 Historical Context: ✅ Vasco da Gama’s explorations helped globalize tobacco trade, making it widespread. 📍 Health & Economic Impact: ✅ Causes 8 million deaths yearly (cancer, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases). ✅ Nicotine addiction worsens the crisis. ✅ Economic burden (₹1.82 lakh crore in India) outweighs revenue benefits. 📍 Ethical & Scientific Efforts: ✅ CRISPR gene-editing aims to reduce nicotine levels. ✅ Balancing health and economy is crucial for policymaking. 📍 Conclusion: Tobacco, once a trade commodity, is now a global health pandemic, demanding urgent action. 🚭 #social_issue #history