{"id":10804,"date":"2014-06-10T10:55:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2014-07-29T06:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T11:33:30","slug":"preocupan-cifras-de-aumento-de-la-poblacion-fumadora-menor-de-18-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/preocupan-cifras-de-aumento-de-la-poblacion-fumadora-menor-de-18-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern about Increasing Numbers of Smoker Population under 18 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9.jpg\" alt=\"9\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><strong><em>Each day, more than\u00a03,000 kids\u00a0in the United States\u00a0try\u00a0their\u00a0first cigarette;\u00a0While in Mexico, there are about one million\u00a0minors\u00a0between 12 and 17 who are smoker.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Increased figures of <strong>smoking population under<\/strong> <strong>18<\/strong> years in Mexico and the United States are worrying. While each day more than\u00a03,000 kids\u00a0in the neighboring country\u00a0try\u00a0their\u00a0first <strong>cigarette<\/strong>, in Mexico there are about one million adolescents between 12 and 17 who are <strong>smokers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, <strong>the National Cancer Institute (INCan)<\/strong> of Mexico and the <strong>MD Anderson Cancer Center<\/strong> from the University of Texas agreed to develop <strong>the Mexico-Texas Tobacco Control Initiative<\/strong>. They will integrate a calendar of preventive actions to be conducted in both countries in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative includes the development of prevention programs against <strong>tobacco consumption<\/strong>, research and exchange of information and students; as reported by the <strong>MD Anderson Center President Dr. Ronald De Pinho<\/strong> and the <strong>INCan General Director Dr. Abelardo Meneses<\/strong> in press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Both indicated that prevention schemes for children and adolescents are required, as it is in this population segment where <strong>tobacco consumption records a higher growth<\/strong>. In addition, previous programs to inhibit tobacco consumption have shown progresses only for the adult consumers sector, not for the minor one.<\/p>\n<p>They noticed that prevention efforts, such as the Mexico-Texas Tobacco Control Initiative is planning to promote, are very important; given that <strong>30 percent of all cancer reports<\/strong> occurring in the two countries are <strong>related to tobacco consumption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, Dr. Ronald De Pinho explained that under the actions to be carried out, it is contemplated the use of various <strong>multimedia tools<\/strong> and even some <strong>video games<\/strong> related to <strong>smoking prevention tasks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the <strong>MD Anderson Center<\/strong> records more than 100,000 medical consultations for people suffering from <strong>cancer <\/strong>each year and is one of the institutions channeling more resources to research and treatment of this disease in the US. In addition, it shares their procedures and information with other hospitals in that country and other nations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <strong>Head of the Coordinating Committee of the National Health Institutes of Mexico Guillermo Ruiz Palacios <\/strong>explained that in order to address the problem <strong>of tobacco consumption growth among young people<\/strong>, there are being formed joint actions with institutions in both countries. He also commented that the initiative agreed with the <strong>MD Anderson Center<\/strong> will be <strong>promoted with other health institutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jornada.unam.mx\/2014\/06\/10\/sociedad\/037n2soc\">www.jornada.unam.mx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Each day, more than\u00a03,000 kids\u00a0in the United States\u00a0try\u00a0their\u00a0first cigarette;\u00a0While in Mexico, there are about one million\u00a0minors\u00a0between 12 and 17 who are smoker.\u00a0 Increased figures of smoking population under 18 years in Mexico and the United States are worrying. While each day more than\u00a03,000 kids\u00a0in the neighboring country\u00a0try\u00a0their\u00a0first cigarette, in Mexico there are about one million &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-adicciones","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11683,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/11683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}