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The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke

Secondhand SmokeSnuff smoke in the environment can seriously affect the health of , 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 epidemic is claiming more deaths in the world-more than AIDS, wars, genocides, that is tolerated and encouraged by most governments around the world: it is smoking. Ten thousand people die each day because of cigarette smoke. It has been known for nearly a century that snuff kills, and not a day that goes by that does not appear that a new scientific study adds more evidence of the ravages of health ..

An important part of the paradox is that cigarette smoke, besides being bad for those who spend a percentage of your salary in it also hurts those who have to swallow it in spite of lack of legislation establishing a modicum of respect for the non-smoking and health policy to promote social education.

The figures speak for themselves. In the latest research carried out with passive smoking, which was just published in the latest issue of Circulation, has shown that after a non-smoker spends a half hour in a room where there’s smoke snuff, its stores of antioxidants (including vitamin C) down to a minimum. These are substances that protect, among other things, the arteries do not form plaques (causes of cardiovascular disease). Read the rest of this entry »

Effects of snuff

What are the short term?
When a person smokes a cigarette, the body responds immediately to the nicotine contained in smoke. The nicotine causes a short-term increase in blood pressure, heart rate and blood flow from the heart. It also causes the arteries to narrow. Carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry. This, combined with the effects produced by nicotine, creates an imbalance in the demand for oxygen by the cells and the amount of oxygen the blood can carry.

What are your long-term effects?
It is now well known to all that smoking can cause chronic lung diseases, heart disease and stroke, and cancer of the lung, larynx, esophagus, mouth and bladder. In addition, the consumption of snuff is known to contribute to cancer of the cervix, pancreas and kidneys. Researchers have identified more than 40 chemicals in the smoke of snuff to cause cancer in humans and animals.

The snuff and cigars also have deadly consequences, including lung cancer, larynx, esophagus, and oral cancer. The harmful effects of smoking do not end with the smoker. Read the rest of this entry »

Smoking in pregnancy

Smoking in pregnancy The scientific evidence is conclusive on the multiple effects from smoking on the health of smokers and people living in environments where the snuff smoke is present. Similarly, in various literature noted the effect that inhaling snuff, by the pregnant woman, has in the product, immediately increase the fetal heart rate.

This happens because most of the constituents of snuff smoke cross the placenta and levels of some components of snuff in the blood of the mother tend to even out the fetus. This is even more serious because the metabolism and elimination are slower in the fetus in the mother, and this causes the accumulation of harmful substances.

The components of snuff and aggression to the fetus

Components of snuff (more than 4 000 substances), the most studied in their assault on the fetus are:

- Nicotine is distributed through the fetal circulation and impacts in organs such as brain, heart and adrenal glands may explain the increased levels of catecholamines (substances that increase heart rate and oxygen consumption) found in the amniotic fluid. Read the rest of this entry »

As the snuff affects your body

snuff affectsThere are few areas of the human body that are affected by chemicals in cigarettes. Let’s take a tour of your body to discuss how the affecting snuff it. We hope this information will encourage you to stop smoking or at least try.

Starting up

As a smoker, you have the risk of mouth cancer. Snuff smoke can also cause gum disease, tooth decay and bad breath. Take teeth yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And the lack of oxygen and reduction of blood vessels in the brain may lead to cerebrovascular disorders.

Bronchi and lungs

Take the chest, smoke passes through the bronchi. Hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals in the smoke attack the lining of the bronchial tubes swell and cause chronic cough in a smoker. Because the bronchi are weakened, you’re more likely to have chest infections. Read the rest of this entry »

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What are the effects of snuff in the body? (III)

Cigarette smoke, including tar, causing biological changes in the eye leading to vision loss in some smokers.

In addition, each puff of cigarette smoke contains about two trillion free radicals responsible for oxidation and premature skin aging. If you want to look younger image as best you can do is quit.

Fertility problems
The fertility problems generated snuff. Are you a woman you’re having trouble getting pregnant? Then you should seriously consider quitting. Dutchman According to a report published by the British science journal “Human Fertility” the snuff has an effect ‘devastating’ fertility.

The study was conducted among 8,500 women from twenty to forty years in the Netherlands were subject to fertility treatment. Forty percent of them were addicted to snuff and had smoked at least one cigarette a day during the previous year. Read the rest of this entry »

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Methods to stop smoking (I)

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Since snuff affects your body
There are few areas of the human body that are not affected by chemicals in cigarettes. Let’s take a tour of your body to look at how that affects the same snuff. We hope this information will encourage you to stop smoking, or at least try.

Starting up
As a smoker, you have the risk of mouth cancer. Snuff smoke can also cause gum disease, tooth decay and bad breath. The teeth take yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And the lack of oxygen and reduction of blood vessels in the brain may lead to cerebrovascular disorders.

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