The minority consumption was until the nineteenth century, when the cigar and smoking are socially accepted, first in Spain, then spread to France by the Romantics and, hence, the whole world. The Industrial Revolution made ​​possible the production of manufactured cigarettes, which favored the massive habit among men did after the First World War and women after World War II. The demonstration of adverse health effects demonstrated in the 50 United States and England. The snuff is a drug and the specific number of consumers is a very important figure.

Although its use has begun to fail socially in recent years. What is and what it contains: In the combustion of snuff are thousands of substances (gases, vapors, etc..) that are carried by the smoke into the lungs. These substances act mainly on the respiratory system, although some of them are absorbed and enter the blood from where they act on other tissues and organs. These substances can be classified in: Nicotine.

Irritants tar and other carcinogens. carbon monoxide . Nicotine is an alkaloid responsible for most of the effects of snuff on the body and leading to physical dependence. The half-life of nicotine in the blood is less than 2 hours. And reduce its concentration as symptoms appear to alert the smoker to smoke again.

Worldwide each year ever more millions of people die due to snuff. Chronic cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, lung cancer, cancer of the mouth … are some of the many diseases caused by nicotine addiction. About 5 million people die each year because of the smoke snuff.

Many people are hooked when young. More and more young people are hooked, as tested with only 13 years, it is important not to buy all minors.

Moreover tobacco companies that profit from knowing that the cigarettes they sell cause major diseases, they are beneficiaries of the deaths occurring in the world, they enter many millions of euros by selling poison to people.

Some considerable negative about snuff:

Data in Spain:
The snuff cause in Spain more than 46,000 deaths annually. Between 1978 and 1992, snuff was the main cause of 621,678 deaths, human lives should not be lost ..
2361 In 1997, cigarettes were consumed per capita, a figure very high, exceeding even that it recently. For many years, for example in 1993, health expenditures to treat illnesses caused by smoke snuff cost 250,000 million pesetas in 1993, today trying to snuff taxes pay this important health bill.

Data in Europe:
In Europe there are over 200 million smokers, a figure draws criticism over new smokers now emerging from Eastern European countries. With these numbers, about 34% of European inhabitants smoke.
Over half a million Europeans die each year because of snuff, many, many. Cancer is a disease that takes more lives, and in Europe on 30% of cancer deaths are caused by the effects of snuff. One in four smokers dies of cancer or cardio-respiratory disease.

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