according to the world Organization of salt UD, cancer is a term used for more than 100 diseases that can affect any part of the body. What defines the cancer is the rapid generation of abnormal cells that grow beyond their normal limits and can invade other parts of the body in a process called metastasis. This can result in severe conditions, even death.
Tobacco use is as old as human society, but their consumption has been targeted by public health institutions, because of its relationship with lung cancer, throat, among many others.
This relationship has made that smokers have adopted a new figure, the electronic cigarette, which is another thing that a vaporizer to battery that heats a solution until it becomes steam (“vapeo”) that is sucked, and which may contain or no nicotine and aromatic essences. Although it can be inferred that reduces the risk of more than 250 thousand toxic substances for the human being contained in a traditional cigarette, it is possible to display new risks associated with this new way of smoking.
The administration of food and Drug (Administration FDA) United States has announced that it investigate the possible link between the electronic cigarette and cases of seizures among its users. The statement indicates that it is investigating 35 cases of people who have suffered seizures when they used electronic cigarettes with nicotine, especially young.
The same institution reported that it was investigating cases of cardiac infarcts in the United States from 2010. The researchers concerned that cannot establish that the “vapeo” is responsible for seizures or cardiac infarcts, but expressed its concern and called on the public to notify new cases if they occur.
Studies in Spain in 2014, raise that in the adult population 10.3% had consumed electronic cigarettes in the last month, these same ex-smokers or traditional cigarette smokers. What is worrying is that this same study reveals that 1 in 4 users of electronic cigarette had never smoked conventional cigarette.
What happens in Chile? We don’t know. Is the electronic cigarette less harmful than traditional cigarette? We don’t know. Yes we can perceive that there is a decrease in perceived risk with respect to the vapeo and its consequences, also be a fashion among teenagers and young people.
We invite you to learn more especially to parents and the community in general. Do not smoke, the smoking whatever, never will be healthy for anyone. Also recommend those who use the electronic cigarette, give if they observe or suffer any abnormal symptoms, go to a health care centre and report these cases. This will allow to determine if the use of the electronic cigarette is a real help for those who want to stop smoking tobacco or a new problem for them and especially for those who, without tobacco, are initiated in the use of this electronic cigarette, of which there is greater in training on its impact on the health of the population.
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