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El tabaco conquista a las mujeres 

El temor a engordar frena el abandono femenino del tabaquismo, según un estudio especializado
Jump to full article: La Provincia / Diario de Las Palmas (es), 2008-03-10

Intro:

The work - exhaustive it is a report on the present situation of the tobacco consumption from a sort perspective. And it adds, that is perhaps but the important thing, a series of future recommendations. It takes the seal of the National Committee for the Prevention of Tabaquismo (CNPT) that publishes with the collaboration of the Observatory of the Woman of the Ministry of Health and Consumption. In him the most qualified specialists in the study take part of which it is possible to be called with all property, tabáquica epidemic in our country.

Doctor Mª Planchuelo Angels, besides to dedicate all her medical life to this problem of public health, is today the president of the CNPT. Perhaps the first question that can arise before this publication is porqué is necessary to approach the tabaquismo from this perspective; in other words, if the circumstance of being man or woman alters the problem.

One first question that is analyzed in this report is the analysis of the social and biological conditioners that in this subject affect of form different from women and men.

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