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one of the most terrible scourges to human health is the cigarette. This service is attracting more people, and when walking down the street is inevitable to see many people smoking. Some take this “habit” because they say it calms the nerves, others because they just love, and others because it makes them more powerful or more presence.

Lung Cancer

However, no one is aware of the terrible effects that smoking has on the human body. Does the principal? Lung cancer, of course. This is a disease that more lives are collected worldwide, and worst of all is that his work on the smoker is very slow, gradually destroying it.

For many years, the highest number of deaths from lung cancer was in men. But now that has reversed, and women are more prone to dying from the disease. In Europe there have been studies that show that the number of cases among females has increased at twice the previous years.

And the reason is actually very simple to identify: the cigarette. Smokers start the habit from a young age. Usually, they start college age but in many cases can be seen smoking in high school adolescents.

According to research, the biggest risk for women smokers reach 60 years. At that age the body is extremely deteriorated due to snuff and soar into the stratosphere the chances of dying from lung cancer.

A danger to your health and your family

In the early twentieth century, the popularity took snuff being strongly promoted by the big tobacco companies offering free cigarettes to soldiers, achieving great popularity among the soldiers of World War II. But it was Second hand smoke and your familyhasta 1950 that became known the negative effects that smoking causes health of people. What is alarming is that smoking not only harms the person smoking, causing lung cancer, emphysema and heart failure, among other chronic diseases, but also causes irreversible damage to the people around who are passive smokers, those who know as secondhand smoke. It is estimated that in 2000 there were 4.9 million deaths caused by secondhand smoke, so it is important to know the problems it caused to our families.

Passive smoking are the people who breathe in the smoke from a burning cigarette or the smoke from the smoker. This smoke is dangerous because it contains over 4,000 chemicals, of which most are toxic substances that can cause different types of cancer. The secondhand smoke not only causes problems for adults, harms children and during pregnancy affects the mother and baby.

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