Rome, May 20 (beraking latest news Salute) – “In principle, the European Commission’s plan could be fine, but it must be free of ideologies and must be based on solid scientific content. In other words, the real issue is not so much stating that smoking, ‘alcohol, a sedentary lifestyle or poor diet are the basis of chronic noncommunicable diseases, which remain the main cause of death, but understand that they have a single common factor which is the wrong lifestyle very difficult to reverse in virtuous. disease I can have a therapy, but against the lifestyles, as a doctor, I find it very difficult. Emmanuele A. Jannini, professor of Endocrinology and Medical Sexology at the Tor Vergata University in Rome, explains this to beraking latest news Salute, commenting on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the European plan to defeat cancer, presented by the European Commission.
“I recently published a scientific article on the topic of risk reduction, in particular smoking – he underlines – It is said that this is the worst enemy of sexual and reproductive health, so as a specialist I say that we must absolutely stop. you count with the diehards who would never stop smoking and we must propose solutions to them such as, for example, a risk reduction strategy. It is a gigantic issue where two opposite sides of medicine are opposed: on the one hand the ‘Taliban’ who they want to put their heads in the sand and scotomize the fact that there are people who do not change their lifestyle, on the other hand there are scientists who with data in hand say that risk reduction is a strategy that can help. that there is a need to abolish addiction to tobacco, but if this is not possible we reduce the risk “.
“This model – recalls Jannini – has already been applied to food. In many products the use of sugars and fats has been limited”, but “it is not that they were eliminated overnight because it was seen that it was impossible. it can also be done with tobacco products “.
“I’ll give an example linked to the pandemic news contained in a recently published article”, continues the specialist. “We all know that the masks today are used for the prevention of Covid infection, but this is a semantic error. The only prevention strategy is to stay at home. The Covid prevention strategy is absolute immobility, but this is not we can do this because our life is made up of relationships, and here we use the mask as a device that reduces the risk. This also happens with the use of heated tobacco products or with drinks with lower amounts of alcohol or , as I said before, with foods that are low in fat. “
“I agree with what the European Commission wants to do with the Plan to beat cancer, but we need to compare ourselves with those who have produced scientific results that show how using the electronic cigarette or heated tobacco devices is reduced by 95% the intake of toxic substances. As a sexologist I believe this is the strategy to follow “, concludes Jannini.