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CIGARETTES

The vice of smoking comes expanding in the world since First World War and, in last the 40 years, it started to be concern for governments, international agencies of health and medical institutions. 90% of the smokers cannot leave the vice, independent of the method whom they use. The first times in general are folloied of nauseas, giddiness and anxiety of vomit and occur mainly in the age of 10, 12 years-old. In Latin America the tobacco is converting into the main cause of

deaths. The nicotine is an stimulate of the central nervous system, narrow the sanguineous vases, magnifying the arterial pressure being able to cause heartattack. The tar accumulates in the lungs and causes other disease. The cigarette is the biggest cause of cancer in the lung, being able to also cause the chronic bronchitis, beyond other illnesses such as: ulcers of stomach and cancer of tongue. The cancer does not appear only through the tobacco of the cigarette, but the tobacco in a general way. The tobacco is related directly to the cancer of breast, uterus cancer and cervical cancer. It was pointed as factor of risk of 24 different illnesses, plus, it increases in 10 times the possibility to occur cerebral spill. The life expectancy of smoking people becomes lesser of whom do not smoke. During the pregnancy, it can facilitate the occurrence of aborts. People that does not smoke, but live with those who does, start to be smoking liabilities, being able to suffer respiratory and cardiovascular riots.

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