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Anti-smoking laws reduce hospitalizations due to cigarette-related diseases

Anti-smoking laws reduce hospitalizations due to cigarette-related diseases

Circulation on October 30. The authors of the study reviewed 45 studies that looked at the consequences of 33 anti-smoking laws applied in a number of countries over a year, including the United States, Germany and Uruguay. According to the results, laws prohibiting smoking in bars, restaurants or at work decreased hospitalizations by 15% for heart attack, 16% for hospitalizations for stroke and 24% for hospitalizations for respiratory problems, such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The research also showed that the more comprehensive laws - that is, ban smoking in bars, restaurants and also at work - are the ones that bring the greatest benefits. Scientists believe the results support the position of the American Heart Association, which believes that anti-smoking laws should extend to all workplaces and public places. . According to the authors, stronger legislation means immediate reductions in health problems related to smoking. Do you really know the dangers of smoking?

In Brazil, 23 people die every hour from smoking-related illnesses. Secondhand smoke is also a big problem. Unifesp pulmonologist Fernando Sérgio Studard explains that staying in a bar where people are smoking is tantamount to smoking four cigarettes for non-smokers. Smoking is the main cause of lung diseases, tumors and cardiovascular diseases.

Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke (cigarettes, cigar, cigarillos, pipe and tobacco).

Passive smoking can be responsible for what diseases? other smoke producers) by non-smokers who live with smokers indoors. Exposure to cigarette smoke can increase the risk of psychiatric illness, cardiovascular mortality, respiratory disease, cancer, and chronic sinusitis, as well as worsening the hearing of adolescents.

What is the risk of smoking indoors?

Second specialists, the air of a usual smoker's residence contains three times more nicotine and carbon monoxide and up to fifty times more carcinogenic substances than the smoke that enters the user's mouth after passing through the cigarette filter. Thus, smoking in enclosed public places, in addition to being forbidden by law in some regions, is also a poison to the lungs.

To stop smoking, which is the best way?

According to the specialist pulmonologist of Unifesp, Sérgio Ricardo Santos, most people can stop without having to turn to a professional. In cases where the person can not quit the addiction on his own, the best thing to do is to find a center specialized in smoking. "Any health professional can solve the problem, both a psychologist and a pulmonologist," says the specialist.

For babies, what problems does passive smoking bring?

A study from the University of Bristol in Britain , says that 90% of mothers who lose their babies to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) are smokers. Sudden death occurs when infants up to one year die without presenting any symptoms, usually during sleep. "Exposure to tobacco smoke, both in pregnancy and postnatal, leads to a number of effects on the child's development," says Sérgio Ricardo Santos.


What is rumor and what is true in Operation Low Flesh

What is rumor and what is true in Operation Low Flesh

Last Friday (17) the Federal Police launched the "Operation Low Flesh", which brought to the fore different irregularities practiced by large slaughterhouses. The findings have generated a wave of insecurity in the population. Am I consuming spoiled meat? Can I develop cancer by eating meat? As a way of clarifying the subject, My Life spoke with Professor Marcos Antônio Trindade, from the Department of Food Engineering at Pirassununga USP and also with Professor Sérgio Pflanzer, professor at the Faculty of Food Engineering at Unicamp.

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Nearly 300 million people have hepatitis b worldwide

Nearly 300 million people have hepatitis b worldwide

A study last Monday (26) by researchers at the Polaris Observatory of the Center for Disease Analysis in the United States revealed a drastic worldwide scenario regarding the HPV virus. The study shows that by 2016 about 300 million people were infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) worldwide, at a prevalence of 3.

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