General Information of Smoking
The Dangers Of Second Hand Smoke
Snuff smoke in the environment can seriously affect the health of non smokers , according to a report published in the latest issue of “Circulation”.
It is a paradox, maybe one of the largest in the history of mankind. The deadliest epidemic that is taking on the world-more than AIDS, wars, genocides, that is tolerated and encouraged by most governments of the world: it is smoking. Ten thousand people die every day because of cigarette smoke. It has been known for almost a century the snuff kills, and not a day goes by that lack of new scientific studies add more evidence of the ravages of the salud.Parte important paradox is that cigarette smoke besides being bad for those who spend a percentage of your salary on it, it also harms those who have to swallow it in spite of lack of legislation establishing a modicum of respect for the non-smoker and a health policy that promotes education social.Los data speak for themselves.
In the latest research with smokers liabilities, which was just published in the latest issue – shows that after a nonsmoker spend half an hour in a room where there’s smoke snuff, its deposits of antioxidants (including vitamin C) down to a minimum. These are substances that protect, among other things, the arteries do not form plaques (causing disease cardiovascular). There have been many studies on passive smoking have shown that smoke secondhand smoke causes cancer and disease cardiovascular, together with other respiratory complications in children, sudden death and infections oído.Una simple search by typing “passive smoking (passive smoking) offers more than 20,000 studies published in refereed journals. But the latest study published in the magazine …
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Dangers of snuff smoke
An hour breathing in an atmosphere full of snuff smoke equivalent to smoking 3 cigarettes .
Children, pregnant women, the elderly and those with heart or respiratory problems are most in need to avoid living or working in environments with smoke snuff.
Children living in environments with smoke snuff are more likely to develop respiratory infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchiolitis and asthma, acute otitis well, childhood caries and sudden infant death.
Pregnant women should avoid smoky environments of snuff, as it negatively affects the health of the fetus.
Chemicals that cause cancer and found in environments with smoke snuff. Read the rest of this entry »
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Endangered animals to cigarette
In addition to cigarette smoke, are affected by environmental pollution
With cancer, lung disease and allergies. Studies on the subject indicates an increased risk in urban areas. Increased cases of canine lymphoma.
If Blue Moon and Morgan certainly could talk they would ask her mother to stop smoking human.
And they would not have reasons: if it is still a relatively unexplored subject, a number of scientific papers show that there is a relationship between certain forms of cancer in dogs and cats and their exposure to passive smoking and environmental pollution.
In addition, the smoke affects the airways of pets, who may also suffer allergic inflammatory diseases.
The Sovereign Martin veterinarian, a specialist in veterinary radiation oncology and human (degrees awarded by the National Atomic Energy Commission and the Institute Roffo, respectively), explains that there is a growing number of cases of lymphoma among dogs. Read the rest of this entry »
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The danger of cigarette smoke
A Spanish research study found that how cigarette smoke affects the muscle fibers first before the entire respiratory system. This means that little is deteriorandfo the human body without you noticing.
The researchers from the Hospital del Mar and the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS of Barcelona, research published in Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
In the same stressed that it was known that the snuff may be one of the factors that contribute to muscle dysfunction in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), but did not know the molecular mechanisms by which cigarette smoke may damage muscle fibers of these patients.
In this sense, the working hypothesis was that the smoke could induce oxidative modifications of key structures of the muscle fibers, such as proteins.
During the investigation it was determined the levels of oxidative stress and inflammation in various muscles of healthy smokers (without cardiovascular or respiratory disease) and guinea pigs exposed to smoke for six months. Was also determined that chronic exposure did not lead to increased levels of inflammation in the muscles, but significantly increased levels of oxidation of muscle proteins in both models.
A Good Day to Quit Smoking
The Office of Health and Consumer Affairs yesterday joined the celebration of World No Snuff by placing an information table at the gates of City Hall Regino Martinez Street. The council offered the travelers information leaflets on the problems caused by her smoking and snuff habits of life without, and inviting smokers to change their candy cigarettes. The local board of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Algeciras also participated in the day with an information table. The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), which owns the local board, called yesterday for “confusing the reform of the Law of Snuff, especially with regard to its application in dance halls, gambling establishments and spaces public use and demanded the total prohibition of the consumption of snuff in that area.
The draft bill bans smoking in nightclubs, gaming facilities and public spaces during business hours “which allow entry to persons under eighteen years.” The AECC reiterated that the law should not stop smoking “in no time and before any public” and opined that “the total ban is easier to implement than the simple restrictions.
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Snuff and memory
According to a recent study in France, smoking is not only harmful to the lungs and the cardiorespiratory system but also weakens the memory and reduced cognitive abilities.
This conclusion was a team from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research Vellejuif on the analysis of lifestyle habits of more than 4,600 people.
These participants were made to complete a regular basis, several tests in which we assessed memory, reasoning skills, vocabulary and verbal fluency.
Thus it was observed that individuals who were current smokers had poorer memory and reasoning skills than those who had never smoked in his life. Researchers also found that the risk of death was higher in smokers.
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Snuff and hearing
If you are a smoker, you know well that one of the best decisions they could take for the sake of your health is quit smoking. There are always more good reasons to quit smoking.
Smoking can be harmful to hearing. In a recent study by Yale University (United States) found that those adolescents who smoke or who somehow were exposed to cigarette smoke, having difficulties to distinguish and interpret sounds.
Studies have shown smokers alterations in brain areas responsible for the transmission of messages, so the researchers believe that nicotine causes disturbances in the structure of the cerebral substance in those areas, in fact, responsible for hearing.
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The practice of sport prevents smoking in adolescents
Smoking is an addiction on the rise among adolescents, and in contrast to this habit that damages health, increases the number of adolescent sedentary and decays the number of young physically active.
This looks like a clash between good and bad habits factors for health, is what is found in a study that evaluated young people between 13 and 18 years in various Spanish cities.
Although sport and physical activity do not reduce the dangers of smoking, sport and snuff consumption is intimately related, according to results of such research.
Were analyzed about 3,000 adolescents from schools in the cities of Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza.
Young people had to answer a questionnaire about their habits and its subsequent analysis shows that 59.2% of adolescents are physically inactive, which far exceeds the percentage in males compared to females (71.1% and 46.7% respectively .)
With respect to smoking, 15% of youth are regular smokers, addiction being slightly higher among women.
By associating physical exercise with the use of snuff was a clear correlation, and that 80.9% of physically inactive adolescents who reported not smoking.
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Nicotine: The venom of snuff.
Nicotiana tabacum is the floor of snuff. It is extracted snuff including cigarettes. Much of the addiction that causes snuff comes from the nicotine, the main addictive substance bearing plant, nicotiana. In addition, add other substances such as tar or oxidizing substances.
When snuff smoking a pipe or cigar nicotine stays in the mucosa of the mouth and larynx, but if you smoke a cigarette poisonous smoke into the lungs. The snuff causes lung cancer, but also the mouth, larynx …
Cause metabolic alterations in the central nervous system and the kidney. This substance creates many complications in humans.
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Symptoms of withdrawal from snuff
What are the symptoms of withdrawal from snuff?
Irritability, nervousness, restlessness, anxiety, frustration, anger, grief, sadness, difficulty concentrating, tiredness, loss of appetite for normal work, insomnia, constipation, headache, intense cravings and increased appetite. These effects appear in most of those trying to quit smoking and are the leading cause of relapse. These effects are unpleasant but temporary. They are a sign of weakness or that you can not leave the snuff. In any event worth supporting these symptoms compared with the advantage that we get to stop smoking.
Is it possible to control the withdrawal symptoms?
The unpleasant effects of withdrawal will be less severe if treated with nicotine gum or patches or other drugs to help you quit smoking. If any of these symptoms is so annoying as to endanger the success of smoking cessation consult your doctor.
Can occasionally smoking a cigarette?
Emphatically NO. Once able to stop smoking will not make the mistake of thinking that smoking a cigarette, nothing happens. Start with one and return to smoking as before.