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Thursday, August 05 2010
The snuff seduces women
Not many days ago did we echo from this website that linked smoking study and newborns, we now turn to the subject of snuff, with reference to information published in the WHO bulletin, entitled 'Women and health: data today, the agenda for tomorrow'.
Weapon of seduction
According to this study, women comprise approximately 20% of the more than one billion smokers in the world. Currently, she is increasingly prone to cancer, heart problems or respiratory diseases, all of these issues, related to the consumption of snuff, and the danger and the dire consequences that represents the habit of snuff for pregnant women and their children. In fact, according to the Spanish Society for Medical Oncology (SEOM) female lung cancer is the only one who has continued to increase in recent years.
To these figures must be added the fact that Spain is one of the European countries with more female adolescents smokers. The data from 151 countries indicate that about 70% of adolescents smoke cigarettes, compared with 12% of boys the same age.