The smokeless snuff also destroys the health of the smoker

The general prohibition of smoking have caused birth or rebirth other forms of consumption of snuff . Those wholly or partly made ​​from sheet snuff products and can be smoked , sucked , chewed or inhaled in the form of powder , gum , lozenges, strips or sticks , as well as electronic cigarettes smokeless snuff is considered among other . Be different , they may seem harmless , but the snuff smoke also destroys health. Warns the World Health Organization (WHO ) , which ensures that this type of consumption is reaching epidemic proportions. The snuff smoke is used by 27% of men and 9% of women " The snuff smoke is becoming an epidemic in some parts of the world," says expert Vijay Trivedi , coordinator of the WHO Secretariat to managed from Geneva convention that starts Monday in Seoul. A WHO report estimated that these products are used by 27% of adult men and 9% of adult women worldwide. Among younger , 15% of boys and 7% of women use some type of smokeless snuff . In Canada have been released since 2009 twenty new products and smokeless snuff sales have increased 10% in the last five years. New shape, new epidemic According to Trivedi, the snuff does not generate smoke "contains many ingredients that are very harmful and ( consumption) is actually increasing in epidemiological proportions in parts of the world, particularly in South Asia and Africa." Its rapid expansion confers a " sense of urgency " to the need to medidasEste expert recognizes that the problem is very complex because these products take many forms and are made almost as consumers , but stresses that the rapid expansion of its use confers a " sense of urgency " to the need for action to tackle the problem . For WHO, snuff smoke is a major cause of illness, disability and death in countries where their use is high. In this regard , a study published this year in India is mentioned and reveals that mortality from oral cancer among users of snuff and nicotine gum is five times higher than in the victims of the same disease who have never used this product. The nicotine contained in these forms of snuff is responsible for its addictive , and other ingredients of toxic and carcinogenic property.