Smoking: values and integrality

Abstract

Smoking is a health problem of great magnitude around the world, and in Cuba it shows a tendency to increase its incidence, most of all, in the ages of the adolescence and youth. This work evaluated smoking as a cause of preventable deceases, the different tendencies and the efforts made for diminishing the damage it provokes, and also smoking beginning at early ages as expression of socially learnt behavior. The existent legislation was reviewed in the different contexts and it was stated the necessity of achieving the protection and integral formation of children and young people from the part of the family, the school, the government organizations and the social and massive organizations. Likewise, it was backed the severe fulfillment of the laws in force and the inclusion of the “no smoking” among the aspects to take into account in the student’s integral evaluation, inculcating this approach as a part of the humanistic values and of the values of respect to life right, to proper and another’s health, as expression of human solidarity