Tabaquismo, pobreza y enfermedad en la ciudad de Cuenca: El cigarrillo y la legislación

Abstract

Smoking is one of the major epidemics of the twentieth century. In this new type of pandemic vaccines will not work classic. To face it with possibilities of success, society needs first accurate information on the characteristics of the problem and, from there, the application of comprehensive policies that allow a significant reduction in consumption. The proof that it is possible to control smoking or is in the fact that in a few decades the use of snuff has decreased significantly in most industrialized countries. In Ecuador even though there are laws that protect consumers, many are not met, especially those aimed at protecting the health and safety of citizens. In Cuenca, it is very easy to observe, as international tobacco companies have managed to corrupt a legal system of a developing country; the sample is young and intimate relationship with the cigarette