10 effects of smoking in passive smokers

The smoke who inhale pasive smokers contains up to three times more nicotine and tar that the one who aspires smoker, and about five times more carbon monoxide.Passive smokers who are exposed to...

5 harmful effects of tobacco on health

Smoke It is one of the addictions What more damage does it cause to the body? Therefore, within the framework of World No Tobacco Day, we must raise awareness about the consequences of tobacco in the...

1. Heart diseases

In Mexico there are around 17.3 million smokers assets, according to the latest data from the National Survey of Addictions. One of the worst consequences of smoking is undoubtedly the lung cancer,...

7 benefits for quitting smoking

The tobacco and other harmful substances of the cigarettes have very negative consequences on our body, unbalancing its functions in many aspects and filling it with toxins and carcinogenic...

6 million people could die from tobacco

The World Health Organization (WHO) noted in its latest report on the epidemic global smoking, that during 2011, almost 6 million people will die. Divided as follows: More than 5 million consumers...

Addicted to cigarettes

A person becomes addicted to the cigarettes due to the rapid action of nicotine in the centers of pleasure of the brain. When you smoke a cigarette, the nicotine enters the bloodstream and in 15 to...

Alteration in gene triggers addiction to nicotine

Scientists discovered that a genetic variation increases the anxiety to consume nicotine in the brain and vulnerability to develop a Addiction to tobacco and lung cancer. What could mean the...

Explicit campaign against tobacco in the US

It is the first change that is made to packets of cigarettes for 25 years in the US, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required that half of the packaging of the pack show graphics that...

Lung cancer is the most aggressive and lethal

The tumors malignancies are the third leading cause of death in Mexico, according to information provided by the National Institute of Public Health. Of the total of 559 thousand 360 deaths...

Air quality does not improve with anti-smoking law

The Anti-tobacco law of Protection of the Health of Non-smokers in the Federal District It was approved four years ago, however, smoking continues to go unpunished in the bars and restaurants of the...

Lung cancer is generated by smoking

The lung cancer It is one of the pathologies most common and deadly. It is estimated that in our country 10 thousand new cases are diagnosed each year, of which only 1.2% are detected in a timely...

Electronic cigar and the controversy about smoking

Control of the use of so-called electronic cigarettes is one of the discussion topics of the delegates of 168 countries gathered in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, in the fourth meeting of...

Electronic cigarettes have not proven their effectiveness

In the case of tobacco cigar substitutes, known as electronic cigars, its effectiveness as a method for give up smoking. The Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (Separ) made the...

COFEPRIS seizes 14 million cigars from Vietnam

At World No Tobacco Day, the federal government, in joint action with the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) and the Service tax administration (SAT), detected...

Menthol cigars damage more than regular ones

The menthol cigars cause more harm than non-menthol cigarettes, are linked to the increase in the number of children who begin smoke and they must be withdrawn from the market, he says The Food and...

Cigar damages your DNA in minutes

The cigars begin to destroy the DNA of the smoker in a matter of minutes after inhaling the smoke, suggest new studies. This causes a genetic damage and increases in the short term the risk of...

How to stop smoking without quitting

There are many reasons why people seek how to stop smoking but without leaving the cigar. Among them, the high risk of suffering some types of cancers that are associated with the smoking.However,...

How is this happening?

Did you know that tobacco use is an important risk factor for the oral cancer and other types of Cancer? Currently, between 75 and 90% of the oral tumors They are also caused by this bad...

Electronic cigar damages the heart

According to a recent investigation of Onassis Center for Cardiac Surgery in Athens, Greece, the electronic cigarette it causes slight damage to the heart; However, its effects are less harmful than...

Cost of a single unfortunate event

This May 31, the World Health Organization (WHO) commemorates World No Tobacco Day. During this celebration, the organism remembers and points out the risks and high costs of what causes smoking.This...