Madrid, 5 sep (EFE).-menthol cigarettes increase tobacco addiction and carry a greater health risk than the traditional ones, as he has warned a group of pulmonologists expert in smoking, calling for prohibition of menthol as an additive in these products.
Menthol smoking favors, creates greater dependence and hinders the abandonment of tobacco, as he explained in a press release Dr. Sigismund Solano, in the service of Pneumology of the Hospital Gregorio Marañón in Madrid and one of the three authors of the study.
This is so because menthol gives the feeling of a breathing more fresh and deep, and acts as an analgesic local softening the effect of smoking on the tract respiratory.
According to Solano, mentholated cigarettes encourage smoking as “facilitate” the Act of smoking to inexperienced smokers or those who reject the roughness of the tobacco.
In an article in the prevention magazine of the smoking of the Spanish society for Pneumology and thoracic surgery (SEPAR), this group of pulmonologists underlined also that tobacco addiction is higher among smokers of menthol cigarettes that between the traditional, that the first need to smoke first cigarette in the morning much earlier.
Solano has also ruled that menthol cigarettes are more healthy.
“Often has wanted them to relate to the benefits associated with medicinal remedies to basis of menthol, and presented as a healthier alternative, but has been demonstrated that this idea is completely false and always smoking is harmful to health”, explained Solano.
Finally, the authors of the article have alerted on the largest number of extra-thin Mint tobacco smoke particulates, which implies higher risk of myocardial infarction, so have recommended authorities ban on menthol as an additive in cigarettes.
In the image, a smoker. EFE/file
