In addition, unhealthy diet, obesity, alcoholism or exposure to Human Papiloma Virus due to sexual promiscuity, among others, could lead to fatal diseases.

Last year, 21,200 people have died of cancer in Cuba, the newspaper said, citing a report by En Red, a science magazine.

In Havana, the mortality rate due to cardiovascular diseases was 131.9 deaths per every 100,000 inhabitants, while that of cancer was 129.5, it said.

Cuba's mortality rate due to cardiovascular diseases in 2008 was 199.6 deaths per every 100,000 people, 189 due to malignant tumors, and 82.3 due to cerebral-vascular diseases, the report said.