World No Snuff: Behind 16 cancers

World No Snuff: Behind 16 cancers. And it is the only data that we remember, in this Day, that quitting smoking is the best decision we can take for our health, as the snuff is the cause of 20% of tumors are diagnosed annually. This is stipulated in a study by the Catalan Institute of Oncology, ICO, which also includes what are the most common tumors associated with smoking (lung, larynx, gastrointestinal tumors, tumors of the urinary tract and respiratory tract).



Smoking is harmful to health. We know, but to what extent? The results of the study of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, reveal that the snuff is responsible not only lung cancer, but up to 16 different tumors. Exposure to smoke and other harmful substances in a cigarette there is behind more than 80% of lung and laryngeal tumors (84% and 82% respectively) that are diagnosed annually in our country, but also 50% Tumors of the urinary tract, of 25% of liver cancer, more than 21 stomach tumors and 14% of colon and rectal cancers.

Over a decade of research support these findings, with the analysis of over 440,000 patients in a dozen European countries (within the EPIC project), and allow authors to encrypt in about 40,000 of the 200,000 cases diagnosed in our country that are associated with the habit of snuff. And the smoke of snuff, as recorded in this study, not only affects the mouth, larynx or lungs, and not forget that also enters the bloodstream and, from there, to any other body organ.

Inform and educate particularly the goal of World No Snuff, promoted by the World Health Organization this year focuses his message on the need to be more restrictive with advertising, promotion and sponsorship snuff. As noted, quitting is investing in health, not just ours, but the health of those around (secondhand smoke). The main risk factor, smoking cessation aid 50% lower risk of developing a lung tumor at five years.

The snuff is one of the risk factors in our power to prevent. The figures are eloquent enough. Smoking is behind one in ten adult deaths worldwide, resulting in six million a year. Reducing these figures is the main goal, and to do prevention, especially among young people, is essential to avoid starting on consumption.

As for smokers, according to a survey by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine, semFYC, the average age of onset is 17 years. Spanish smokers smoke an average of 13 cigarettes a day (just over half a pack of snuff). Six out of ten, as stated in the same survey, have raised quit, and four out of ten have tried in the last year. Only 2.8% said they had no intention of quitting. What you might not know smokers, is that the effects are more harmful to women's health. In fact, women need to consume less snuff for any damage to the body.