(Adnkronos) - Il fumo di tabacco in Italia rappresenta ancora la principale causa prevenibile di sviluppo di patologie oncologiche. Il piano italiano di lotta al tabagismo si basa principalmente sulle linee di intervento proposte dalla legge Sirchia e dalle sue successive modifiche. Ma tanto ancora deve essere fatto. Per molti fumatori smettere è davvero difficile e negli ultimi anni il passaggio all’utilizzo di sistemi senza combustione e a rischio ridotto ha innescato un dibattito scientifico che coinvolge la comunità accademica di tutto il mondo ma il tema riguarda anche le politiche pubbliche e le risposte che arrivano dalla scienza. Di questo hanno discusso i massimi esperti di riduzione del danno che si sono riuniti a Catania per la conferenza nazionale promossa dal Coehar, il Centro di Ricerca per la Riduzione del danno da Fumo dell’Università di Catania, che vanta più di 130 pubblicazioni firmate da più di 100 ricercatori impegnati in 15 paesi diversi nel mondo. 30 gli studi presentati dai relatori davanti ad una platea di 200 persone tra medici, studenti ed esperti di salute pubblica.
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00:04 If 80,000 deaths a year in Italy alone due to smoking are not enough to eliminate cigarettes,
00:10 then it is necessary to find alternatives.
00:13 On the occasion of the famous "Bacco Day" in 2023, during a national convention,
00:17 the Cohair Research Center of the University of Catania made the point of the situation.
00:22 Reflectors were turned on on the passage to the use of non-combustion systems at a reduced risk,
00:27 fundamental for those who do not want or cannot stop smoking.
00:32 Professor Riccardo Polosa, founder of the Cohair,
00:36 has spoken about the situation in Italy and abroad on the reduction of smoking damage.
00:40 In Italy we are in a stalemate, so let's talk about abroad, which is perhaps better.
00:46 In England, last week, the British government announced a new program,
00:52 really revolutionary, extraordinary, which is called "Swap to Stop",
00:57 which means that the government has committed to supplying over a million electronic cigarette kits
01:03 to help at least a million smokers stop smoking.
01:06 Now, I think this is a very courageous operation, certainly based on evidence.
01:14 Giovanni Livolti, director of the Cohair, has spoken about how cigarettes and products at reduced risk affect pathologies.
01:21 It is now known from numerous clinical studies that cigarette smoking is associated with an increase in the progression of the disease in patients affected by lung cancer
01:31 and, above all, a resistance to chemotherapy and cisplatin.
01:35 So, patients who have these pathologies should stop smoking.
01:39 Only 16% of these patients can stop smoking.
01:44 Gualberto Gussoni, director of the Fadoi Research Centre, has explained the state of the art of smoking-free products in the case of lung or chronic obstructive diseases.
01:55 There are also digital technologies, applications that are studied and rigorously validated,
02:03 which interact with the patient, with the smartphone, with the computer,
02:07 and which instruct, help, inform and motivate him to stop smoking.
02:11 And finally, there are these alternative products to traditional cigarettes,
02:15 which in some studies have shown the ability to start the patient towards a switch.
02:20 Emanuele Iannini, a professor at the University of Rome, has related the damages that smoking causes to sexuality.
02:27 Well, the correspondence of the impotence of erectile dysfunction, of the inability to obtain and maintain erection in the female, is the pathology of lubrication.
02:39 Women believe they have a sort of biological protection against smoking.
02:44 In reality, we know that the more they smoke, the more they feel bad, just like men.
02:49 The COER, the Research Centre for the Reduction of Smoking Damage at the University of Catania,
02:54 has more than 130 publications signed by over 100 researchers, committed in 15 different countries.