TEENS MENTHOL SNUFF
65% of underage smokers choose menthol cigarettes, which have proven more addictive and dangerous to health
65% of underage smokers choose menthol cigarettes, which have proven more addictive and dangerous to health
Menthol has been used routinely as an additive in cigarettes to provide freshness. However, the National Committee for Smoking Prevention calls for the withdrawal of the sale to the public this kind of snuff. The reason, supported by health professionals from 40 associations and scientific societies, is that this substance, as well as promoting smoking, causes more harmful effects on the human body and, if possible, when in full swing .
Menthol is associated with dental hygiene products and mouthwashes, candies and sweets, medications, cough, sore creams and lotions to treat itching, among others. Is associated with mint, its freshness and its plant. For these reasons, rarely takes into account that alcohol is a synthetic form obtained from it (Mentha arvensis) and may involve intoxication. This is the case of menthol cigarettes, defined as less harmful than conventional snuff, although they have some natural and much dangerous, as reported from the National Committee for Smoking Prevention (NPTC).
addictive substance
According to professionals and specialists from 40 scientific societies, including some menthol cigarettes is anything but innocuous. The proportion free of nicotine and its addictive properties power, besides being a bronchodilator, making nicotine penetrates more deeply into the pulmonary tree and inhale more carcinogens. At the same time, makes the product less unpleasant in the early stages of consumption and masks the taste of snuff and the first signs harmful.
A study published in 2008 in the American Journal of Public Health "and then claimed that this substance hidden dryness and irritation caused by smoke
snuff, but does not reduce the negative action of harmful substances like nicotine. The figures suggest that 43.8% of those aged 12 to 17 years who began to smoke did so with menthol cigarettes, compared to 35.6% of smokers aged 18 to 24 and 30% over 30 years.
The snuff is the only legal product sold is not required to reflect all components labeling
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CNPT also denounce these menthol cigarettes are more addictive than others without this substance, like most wing population As poorest fruit flavors with frequent in Latin American countries. For this reason and to help delay the onset age in this habit, the committee urges the state to take legal control actions on the snuff industry.
show that the packs will not truthfully report the components of cigarettes, as they only announce the percentage of nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide, but not of other additives, by relying on interpretations of unclear secrecy laws and industrial property. There is a situation, at least, strange: the snuff is the only legal product sold not subject to European labeling directive, which obliges to sell all its products for human consumption as food, cosmetics or medications, among others, with a label are reflected each and every one of its components. For CNPT, this situation is incomprehensible.
Insufficient evidence "or economic interest?
Advisors Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ensure that scientific evidence is insufficient to draw conclusions about the dangers of menthol. Although not deny that it is more addictive, they say that can not be determined that smokers have a higher risk of diseases. However, the FDA is not bound to follow the recommendations of the expert panels that form. A note: Menthol cigarettes account for 30% of over 83,000 million proceeds from the sale of snuff. Lorillard Inc. and RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Reynolds American Inc. (two of the most important industries engaged in the production of snuff) have filed a lawsuit to prevent the FDA considers the views of experts in its final decision.
other harmful components
Nicotine is an addictive substance that is absorbed easily and very quick inhaling or smoking a snuff product. When added to the bloodstream, the substance that stimulates the adrenal glands, in turn, increase the release of adrenaline, a substance that stimulates the central nervous system. Adrenaline causes increased blood pressure, respiratory rate and heart rate. It also releases more glucose in blood, but nicotine overrides the production of insulin in the pancreas.
Although highly addictive and toxic, nicotine is the culprit for causing cancer. Hazardous agents identified as carcinogens are components that are part of snuff smoke (carbon monoxide, tar, acetaldehyde, cyanide and ammonia). Carbon monoxide increases the risk of disease
As with substances such as cocaine, heroin or marijuana, nicotine increases levels of a neurotransmitter (dopamine) related to the pursuit of pleasure in the brain and the development of addictions
ALARMING FIGURES
If not reversed the figures, in 2020 ten million deaths attributed to this habit
The snuff is a major preventable causes of chronic diseases and are estimated to die each year from its causes about five million people, some 55,000 in Spain. The future scenario is not expected better. Experts predict that if not reversed the figures, in 2020 ten million deaths attributed to smoking. In developed countries, is the leading cause of premature death. Experts consider smoking a pediatric disease because age of onset is established in adolescence: the latest figures say that 90% of smokers said they smoked their first cigarette before age 18 years and 60% before age 14.
In Spain, the age of onset is around 13 years (being the son of a smoker increases the possibility of addiction to snuff), the earliest of all European territory, and 30% of the youth of our country and are considered addicts to snuff, a figure that has increased considerably in recent years. The largest number of smokers novel is concentrated among adolescents with low education and lower among those who have attended university.
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