Advantages of tobacco

1991/07/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Osasuna

In a survey conducted on drugs in general and compared to each other, tobacco is recognized with the following characteristics of interest. Tobacco smoke, considered as a low irritating drug, is mainly breathed with cigarettes, cigars or pipes, and initially produces the smoker uncomfortable symptoms with parasympathetic stimulation: exaltations, cold sweat, slowing of the heartbeat, etc.

However, these symptoms that appear when burning the first cigarettes disappear and, in the absence of parasympathetic effects, are usually resorted to increasing doses, being for many more the social habit than the habit of toxicómano. In this sense it will have to do with the legalization of the sale of tobacco (except for minors).

However, its chronic pathology is scary: lung cancer, respiratory failure, alterations of blood vessels, gastric ulcers, hypotrophy of the child in pregnant smokers, etc. Some diseases on the list are.