Less tobacco makes you live longer

• April 27, 2024

The smoking is the main cause why men live less years (75 versus 83 years, of the average) that women throughout Europe, publishes the Spanish newspaper The country .

Studies argue that tobacco-related diseases account for 60% of the gender differences in the mortality rate in Europe, according to the Public and Social Health Unit of the Medical Research Council of Glasgow, Scotland.

The alcohol represents between 10 to 20% of that gap according to data from the World Health Organization in 30 countries.

However, the change of habits in the consumption of alcohol and tobacco in women, could balance the difference in the mortality rate from all over Europe. "Changes in smoking patterns suggest that the gap in mortality between genders will decrease in the coming decades," the researchers write in the publication.

According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), in Mexico, although women show the later ages of beginning to the daily consumption of cigars , at a national level, they are the ones that present the highest percentages of active consumption, concentrating 76.6% against 52.2% in men.

In our country, one of the main causes of hospital morbidity related to tobacco use are the malignant tumors , a condition that affects a greater proportion of women, according to the Journalmex portal.

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