In the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, in Camaguey, there is a weekly appointment known as Pulmonary Shade. It was created on November, 2015 because the lung cancer patients need the attention and treatment of specialist of several branches of medicine.

Various actions are taken by Cuba in the fight against smoking, taking into account that its prevalence is 24 percent, which places the country in third place with the highest rate of addiction in Latin America.