Quit Smoking and Health Care

Smoking is an addiction on the rise among adolescents, and in contrast to this habit that damages health, increases the number of adolescent sedentary and decays the number of young physically active.

This looks like a clash between good and bad habits factors for health, is what is found in a study that evaluated young people between 13 and 18 years in various Spanish cities.

Although sport and physical activity do not reduce the dangers of smoking, sport and snuff consumption is intimately related, according to results of such research.

Were analyzed about 3,000 adolescents from schools in the cities of Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza.

Young people had to answer a questionnaire about their habits and its subsequent analysis shows that 59.2% of adolescents are physically inactive, which far exceeds the percentage in males compared to females (71.1% and 46.7% respectively .)

With respect to smoking, 15% of youth are regular smokers, addiction being slightly higher among women.

By associating physical exercise with the use of snuff was a clear correlation, and that 80.9% of physically inactive adolescents who reported not smoking.

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