Toldos Guardamar wants a world free of smoke, a resounding NO to tobacco.

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On May 31 of each year,the OMS and its partners promote and celebrate the World Day of the Non-smoker, dedicated to highlighting the health risks linked to tobacco use, promoting effective policies to reduce this habit. Exposure to tobacco in any of its forms is the main preventable cause of death in the world; it currently kills one in ten adults worldwide. The image of an ashtray and a rose is the symbol or logo that represents this campaign.

Children’s exposure to tobacco smoke does not occur only in public spaces: according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, home is the main place where this happens, and the percentage of children living with at least A smoker is up to three times greater than that of an adult. Right in the place where children should be more protected. The severity varies depending on whether the adults smoke in front of the minors or if, on the contrary, they go out to the balcony, to the terrace or open a window; but no option is safe for the little ones. “It is obvious that smoking inside the home increases the presence of tobacco smoke. But doing it outside does not eliminate the risk. The smoke remains attached to the walls, the clothes, the fabric of the seats of the car, etc. It continues to have harmful effects and is not eliminated so easily when ventilating, “says Sánchez-Solís. Tobacco contains more than 4,000 chemical products, of which at least 250 are harmful and 50 produce cancer.

From Toldos Guardamar we want to raise awareness that not only are those who smoke at risk, but we are all, especially those who have to protect the most; children.

Toldos Guardamar for a healthier world every day.