Quit Smoking and Health Care

Cigarette smoke “at rest” Second-hand Smoke
In Spain there are five million passive smokers (non-smokers who are exposed to the risks of this snuff smoke indoors) involuntary and dangerously consuming, on average, equivalent to an amount ranging from three to six cigarettes a day, but smoke still worse than the smoker inhales directly to the shed.

Second-hand smoke causes snuff called “passive smoking”, which ranks third in the list of preventable deaths worldwide. Despite that affects us all, children and pregnant women are the population most vulnerable to its effects.

High levels of toxicity
Concentrations of toxic substances such as carbon monoxide and nicotine, among others, are higher in secondhand smoke than in the set (three times more nicotine and tar, and five times more carbon monoxide). This is compounded by the fact that environmental smoke particles are smaller with burn more slowly, which also produce more toxic substances, allows them to enter the nose and mouth more easily than the smoke inhaled directly to the shed. The result is very harmful act by different mechanisms and the smoke that the smoker swallows with their puffs.

Thus, it was found that the concentrations of tar and carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke are similar to those of a smoker snuff “normal” five cigarettes a day. Read the rest of this entry »