Doctors do not recommend to quit smoking

So, at the first cardiological conference, which passed in Tallinne, was discussed refusal of the smoking as the reasons for cardiovascular diseases.

It was explained that after the last 15 years a quantity of smoking doctors in Estonia was reduced almost doubly. However, the portion of patients, with which in the course of the recent 12 months the doctor recommended to patients to forego the smoking, did not increase within the same period.

As reported the chief specialist of the division of the people health of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia Of andrus Of lipand, while in Latvia with the years situation was improved, in Estonia dynamics negative.

1998 doctors advised to forego the ruinous habit to 9% smokers, and in 2002 - only 6%. In Finland and Latvia this index - 25%, while in Lithuania - is more than 20%.

In 2002 from the stomatologist was obtained the council to throw to smoke 3% of Estonian smokers, at the same time in Finland - 6%, while in Latvia 14%. From the nurses such councils obtained only by 2% of Estonian smokers, the corresponding indices in Finland and Latvia - 20% and 10%.

In Estonia because of the smoking yearly die about 2000 people of average age, in the world for the same reason die more than five million people per year.