World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated the 31^st of May every year to remind the public about the harmful effects of tobacco use: it’s called World No Tobacco Day (WNTD).

Every year WHO picks a different theme for the day which is now: Tobacco – a threat to development. They aim to achieve this goal with global cooperation, campaigns and promotion. As the poster says “Say no to tobacco: Protect health, reduce poverty and promote development” smoking and buying tobacco products harms more than just our health.

We all know how bad smoking actually is for health. More than 7 million people die annually from it.
It causes cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases and even cancer if used long-term. However less people know that in order to grow and harvest tobacco we need to deforest new areas, and the manufacturing of tobacco produces 2 million tonnes of waste –every year.

Medicover Hospital Hungary also would like to draw your attention to the importance of a tobacco-free world. Smoking not only harms you, the consumer, but the family and loved ones around you. Second hand smoking is also very dangerous and may contribute to an early death.

On a positive note, more tools are available today to quit this habit than ever. There are preventive and quitting methods, professional, free help, lifestyle coaches and so on.

On a positive note, more tools are available today to quit this habit than ever. There are preventive and quitting methods, professional, free help, lifestyle coaches and so on.

You can experience the positive effects of not smoking even after 20 minutes. The circulation improves in your extremities and your pulse and blood pressure gets back to normal. After 3 days the airways start to clear up, you can breathe more easily and you sense of taste and smell enhances. When the 10-year mark passes, the risk for lung cancer drops and equals to the normal, non-smoking population.

It’s never too late to quit smoking as you see, your body does a marvelous job repairing itself after even this amount of harm.

Consider paying a visit at our facility where we can execute precise lung disease screening with special low dose computed tomography (LDCT). This way the malignant lesions and other chronic lung diseases can be discovered just in time to treat them effectively.