Harmful or not of the electronic cigarette

Abstract

Tobacco consumption in America is recorded from the indigenous populations, which were used for medicinal purposes and in religious beliefs. Having its greatest dissemination upon the arrival of the discoverers of the Americas. Plant from the nightshade family whose dry, rolled leaves were used in the form of a firebrand that was lit at one end and sucked at the opposite end, drawing the attention of the colonizers.Denominated in the native language as cohiba which could be consumed in smoke, chewed or inhaled. Tobacco acts in the human body as a stimulant of neurotransmitters, effects that are determined by nicotine, which is found in an approximate proportion of 1 or 2.5% of the weight of tobacco. Having the capacity for general dependence and addiction.Tobacco consumption is one of the preventable causes of mortality; However, more than eight million deaths are attributed to this habit annually, of which nearly 90% correspond to active smokers, and the remainder to passive smokers. Large campaigns are being carried out to control tobacco consumption worldwide, promoting the generation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which is an international treaty that includes effective measures in the form of articles. for tobacco control in each participating country. The MPOWER measures emerge from the FCTC, which include six highly efficient items in tobacco control [1].