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12/03/2014
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From this Wednesday (3) is effective Anti-Smoking Law, valid in the country. Under the new rules, it is prohibited the consumption of cigarettes, cigars, pipes or any other smoking product indoors for collective use, such as bars, restaurants, nightclubs and work environments. The penalty in case of breach of the law, rests with the owner of the premises, and varies between R$ 2,000 and R$ 1.5 million, to the suspension of the operating license.
The law 12,546 there since 2011, but it was only regulated last August, and also prohibits smoking areas and cigarette advertisements.
Smoking is allowed outdoors as streets, sidewalks, parks and homes.
Jefferson Luiz Gross, oncologist surgeon and director of the Lung Center and Chest AC Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, the law is essential to reduce exposure for passive smokers.
"The greater importance of the law is to protect the non-smoker of the risks caused by smoking. This risk is lower than in someone who smokes, but is an increased risk," says.
According to INCA data (National Cancer Institute), passive smoking is responsible for seven deaths per day in the country, in a study that considers only passive exposure to cigarette smoke at home, according to 2012 data.
While the data on deaths from passive smoking not have the scope of the deaths resulting from exposure in the workplace, studies show that non-smoking workers exposed to tobacco smoke unintentionally consume four to 10 cigarettes a day.
Waiters nonsmokers who work in smoke with ambient feature two times more likely to develop lung cancer than those not exposed.
According to the institute, smoking kills 200,000 people a year in Brazil, 552 per day. The type of cancer that kills the country is lung, and about 90% of cases are linked to smoking. The INCA estimates for 2014 is that 27,330 new cases of lung cancer are registered in the country.
Each year, the NHS (National Health Sistem) spends £ 19,150,000 a year with diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by passive smoking, while the Social Security spends over £ 18 million a year in pension and benefits related to the problem .
"Tobacco is a significant carcinogen. The law aims to protect people's health, but it also has a side effect, which is to help people to stop smoking, you will cracking down on smoking," says Gross.
With the fall in the number of smokers and people exposed to smoke, Gross says it is natural that there is a fall in the number of cardio-respiratory diseases, and cancer.
"It's a form of prevention we call primary, which means taking the risk factor for the individual to develop the disease. This claramanete will have an impact on population health, and thus in spending on health," says the expert.
Source: UOL
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