Reality about tobacco

When we talk clearly about tobacco, the main ways in which it is consumed and the effect it can have on health, neither myths, nor Chinese stories. The first truth is that there is no safe or healthy way to smoke. Tobacco: many ways to consume it, none safe Tobacco is one of the greatest threats to public health that the world has had to face. It is known that it kills up to half of its consumers, ending up with the lives of more than seven million people each year. Today, you have learned the risk of consuming industrial cigarettes of typical brands, but what about rolling tobacco and the electronic cigarette? And the water pipes? It's time to clear up some doubts about other forms of tobacco use. Snuff rolling. Some think that rolling tobacco is better than industrial cigarettes because it generates the feeling that it is more natural, that you smoke less or that it contains less toxic. This is true? It is not false. In reality, rolling tobacco is more addictive and toxic than industrial tobacco cigarettes. It contains more carbon monoxide and nicotine, besides it has been proven that smoking this type of cigarettes there is a higher risk of cancer of the larynx, esophagus, pharynx and mouth.

Electronic cigarettes

Research and scientific evidence on the safety of electronic cigarettes are quite limited. Due to the lack of regulation and quality controls, there are many types of electronic cigarettes that work in different ways, which makes it even more complicated to determine with certainty that their use does not pose a health risk. There are not enough studies that show that they can be an effective aid to stop smoking and most of the statements made are inaccurate, misleading or insufficiently proven.

It is still unknown if the mechanism by which pulmonary inhalation of nicotine through these cigarettes can help to overcome the addiction or, on the contrary, can help to maintain or initiate it among the minors. The Spanish Association against Cancer discourages the use of these products, because, in addition to what has been explained, it is known that they perpetuate addiction from the psychological point of view. The World Health Organization ends its report on the subject in the following way: "Until there is data, certified by a competent national regulatory body, demonstrating that electronic cigarettes are safe, effective and of acceptable quality, it should be Seriously warn consumers to refrain from using them. " Water pipes (hookahs). Water pipes, hookah or shisha can pose an even greater health risk than cigarette smoking. They work with a combustion system based on carbon, which produces carbon monoxide, tar, nicotine, metals and other toxins, even after being in contact with water, which does not filter them. At the same time, smoking a hookah inspires and emits greater amounts of smoke than when smoking an industrial cigarette. Water pipes, in addition to being very harmful for those who smoke, are also extremely harmful to the health of those who do not smoke, but are exposed to smoke. Also, research indicates that smoking in a hookah creates addiction and that the various presentations with odors and flavors are causing many young people to start using tobacco through this system, thus increasing the number of smokers and decreasing the age of the beginning of consumption.

You can sometimes think that smoking cigars is less harmful than cigarettes; however, only one cigar can contain the amount of tobacco that has a full pack of cigarettes. On the other hand, tobacco from cigars is mostly aged, fermented, dried and subject to other processes, which in the end makes smoke very irritating to the upper respiratory tract, even if it is not inspired. Beware of deceptive advertising! Several companies in the tobacco industry are carrying out huge advertising campaigns to try to suggest that new ways of consuming tobacco are not harmful to health, generating new brands that transmit another image. These campaigns are nothing more than an attempt to "wash your face" of tobacco. The first studies on cigarettes without combustion, those that "heat but do not burn" the tobacco, reveal that the presence of nicotine diminishes very little and that many other components harmful to health are still present in the smoke generated by smoking with these devices.

'The last casting', a campaign to stop smoking Smokers do not feel identified with the deadly data that supposes the consumption of tobacco, nor with the alarmist images of the packets. To make them aware of the reality of tobacco, the AECC has launched a campaign to show the reality of the effects of tobacco, which, following its "instruction manual", shows that it kills. A real casting has been called to look for "the image of a new tobacco brand". The only requirement, that they were smokers. These were the results: