Do not use any tobacco products

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), non-smoking tobacco products (dry powder tobacco or chewing tobacco) should not be used as a substitute for conventional cigarettes or used to quit smoking because there are high risk of relapse.

These products, apart from being able to maintain smoking addiction, can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and cancer. This is the latest report published in the Circulation magazine, the official newspaper of AHA.

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' Do not use any tobacco product ', is the statement of Dr. Mariann Piano, author of the report and expert of the Department of Behavioral Health Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

The article also mentions debates about whether the use of other tobacco products is a ' safer ' option than smoking. The use of these products stems from the experience of a Swedish group when the statistics of men in this country, from 1976 to 2002, the number of smokers decreased markedly, along with the trend High rate of use of non-smoking tobacco products.

However, new US research has shown that this is not true, there is no drop in smoking rates among those who use tobacco powder or chewing tobacco.For those who want to quit smoking, nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine candy or nicotine-containing skin patch) is the safest solution. The risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke has not increased for nicotine therapy instead.

When the ban on smoking became popular in the United States, non-smoking tobacco products were widely promoted as an alternative solution, with the motto ' anytime, anywhere '.

Piano said: ' The tobacco products do not smoke toxic and addictive, it cannot be a better choice. Scientists and authorities need to pay attention to assessing the consequences of 'risk reduction' messages on non-smoking cigarettes today, especially when they are directed to groups of people who want to quit. tobacco '.

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