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The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Snuff 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 »
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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 »
Stop Smoking – Quit Smoking Benefits
If you are considering quitting smoking , you probably want to know some good reasons to help you decide. We have known for a long time that snuff has very harmful to the smoker’s health. In 1990, the report Surgeon General of the United States detailed knowledge. In addition, in recent years there has been a great development in the description of the benefits associated with reducing the consumption of snuff.
Quitting smoking causes an increase in life expectancy for both sexes, regardless of your age. Ex-smokers have fewer health problems than their former colleagues, smokers. They have a lower risk of coronary heart disease (myocardial infarction) and stroke, have fewer complications in the postoperative coronary morbidity and mortality from COPD is lower and there is a decreased risk of developing cancer, especially lung cancer. Nor should we forget the great benefit to the fetus means that pregnant women do not smoke, especially during the first trimester of pregnancy.
The goal of every smoker must always be completely quit, but it is true that partial reductions in cigarette consumption also produce a decrease of the associated risks.
The undoubted benefits of leaving the snuff is accompanied by some disadvantages, mainly arising from the withdrawal symptoms that every smoker suffering ceases to be. These drawbacks are minor and have a little weight on the side of the huge advantages in terms of health and wellness. Read the rest of this entry »
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Smoking affects up to 70 percent male fertility
Travilla Efren Mendez, a specialist in fertility, explained that “pre- pregnancy smoking affects men more because the mobility of the sperm is reduced by up to 70 percent, which may reduce their reproductive capacity. “In an interview, also a gynecologist and specialist in care of infertile couples, Pregnancy and Contraception High Risk, said that in the case of women smoking can cause ectopic pregnancy and even infertility because the egg can not be grasped.
Emphasized that there is evidence that prior smoking the pregnancy has serious health implications, not just the mother but the product. This is because addiction during pregnancy may cause delay in the intrauterine growth product, resulting in children of low birth weight babies or even which may have withdrawal symptoms. He explained that this condition is explained as the concern that produces an addiction to stop, because the mother was going through blood chemicals from snuff.
Trevilla Mendez warned that “the baby has a disadvantage because they can even be susceptible to respiratory infections, “but not only that but it becomes a passive smoker to be in that environment and has the same risk as an adult passive smoker. In turn, Dr. Guadalupe Ponciano Rodriguez, coordinator of the clinic Against Smoking Faculty of Medicine, UNAM, said it is advisable to start treatment to stop smoking at least six months before pregnancy, but said it should be prescription and under supervision of a physician.
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Quitting smoking – Data on smoking
Half of the people who die from smoking have lost an average of 20 years. And many more individuals and families are seriously diminished the quality of years lived.
Smoking is the recognized cause of 29 diseases (including 10 different types of cancer)
Because of its enormous importance, it should be noted that smoking causes over 90% of bronchitis cases diagnosed in our country, 95% of lung cancers, 30% of all coronary heart disease and also a well-established causal factor for esophageal cancer, bladder, oral cavity and larynx.
The women, besides being exposed to the same risks as snuff causes in men, are subject to additional risks. In addition to these smoking increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease.
Snuff consumption has a multiplier effect of cardiovascular risks posed by oral contraceptives. Therefore, the likelihood of heart attack increases tenfold in women who smoke and continue this method of contraception. Women who smoke have an advance through menopause two to three years compared to women who never smoked, in parallel increasing the risk of osteoporosis.
Sometimes the risk of death smoking causes confusion is minimized and so interested, placing it among many other risks that we are forced to live every day.
Looking at the annual deaths due to causes of social impact and equally avoidable deaths we can see from consumption of snuff are tens of times more numerous than deaths from illegal drugs, AIDS and road accidents.
You know that, of 1,000 deaths that occur in Spain, 151 due to the consumption of snuff, 15 traffic accidents, 4 to AIDS and less than an illegal drug consumption. It is therefore important to know that it is wrong to equate the health impact of smoking with other everyday risks to which we are also subject, such as traffic accidents or exposure to air pollution.
Smoking accelerates the aging process
The appearance of wrinkles on the face is a natural phenomenon common to most older people, whether men or women. However, smoking causes dry skin and accelerates the onset of facial wrinkles prematurely.
While this fact can not be regarded as a serious health problem, it must be pointed out, if only to counter the image that advertising offers people who use snuff: young, attractive and radiant faces. Read the rest of this entry »
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Passive smoking
Cigarette smoke “at rest” Second-hand Smoke
In Spain there are five million passive smokers (non-smokers who are exposed to the risks of this snuff smoke indoors) involuntary and dangerously consuming, on average, equivalent to an amount ranging from three to six cigarettes a day, but smoke still worse than the smoker inhales directly to the shed.
Second-hand smoke causes snuff called “passive smoking”, which ranks third in the list of preventable deaths worldwide. Despite that affects us all, children and pregnant women are the population most vulnerable to its effects.
High levels of toxicity
Concentrations of toxic substances such as carbon monoxide and nicotine, among others, are higher in secondhand smoke than in the set (three times more nicotine and tar, and five times more carbon monoxide). This is compounded by the fact that environmental smoke particles are smaller with burn more slowly, which also produce more toxic substances, allows them to enter the nose and mouth more easily than the smoke inhaled directly to the shed. The result is very harmful act by different mechanisms and the smoke that the smoker swallows with their puffs.
Thus, it was found that the concentrations of tar and carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke are similar to those of a smoker snuff “normal” five cigarettes a day. Read the rest of this entry »
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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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The Smoking During Pregnancy
Smoking is a major public health problem. All smokers are at increased risk for lung cancer, other lung diseases, cardiovascular problems and other health problems. Smoking during pregnancy can endanger the health of the woman and her unborn baby. Currently, at least 10 percent of women in the U.S. smoke during pregnancy 1.
18 percent of women in the United States and other industrialized countries smoke 2. In developing countries is about 8 percent. Many of these women smoke while pregnant.
The statistics on what happens in the U.S. are strong. If all pregnant women stopped smoking in the United States, the number of stillbirths would drop by 11 percent and the number of deaths of newborn babies in a 5For percent, according to estimates by the Public Health Service of the United United 1 . Currently in the United States, at least 11 percent of women smoke during pregnancy. 2
Cigarette smoke contains over 2,500 chemicals. No one knows for sure what harm the developing baby, but it is believed that both nicotine and carbon monoxide can cause the pregnancy does not have the desired result.
What causes smoke damage in the newborn?
Smoking nearly doubles the risk of low birth weight baby. In the United States in 2002, 12.2 percent of babies born to smoking mothers with low birth weight (less than 5.5 libras/2.5 kg) compared with 7.5 percent of babies born to nonsmoking mothers. 2 The low weight birth may result from insufficient development of the baby in the womb, premature delivery, or both. It has long been known that smoking slows fetal growth, and studies suggest it also increases the risk of preterm delivery (before 37 weeks gestation). Premature and low birthweight are at higher risk for serious health problems during the first months of life, permanent disability (including cerebral palsy, mental retardation and learning problems) and even death.
The more a pregnant woman smokes, the greater the risk to the baby of low birth weight. Also, if you quit at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, have virtually the same chances that your baby is born with low weight a woman who never smoked. Even if she fails to quit in the first or second trimester, if at all during the third the baby’s development can be improved.
A recent study suggests that women who smoke at any time from the month before pregnancy to the end of the first quarter are more likely to have a baby with birth defects, particularly congenital heart defects 6 . The risk of heart defects seems to increase with the number of cigarettes a woman smokes.
Can smoking cause pregnancy complications? Read the rest of this entry »
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What are the effects of snuff in the body? (II)
The effects of snuff decreased lung tissue elasticity. Cigarette smoke causes respiratory inflammation and interferes with the normal expansion and contraction of lungs.
Carbon monoxide, the invisible poison in cigarette smoke causes heart disease. Carbon monoxide robs oxygen from blood. As a result, tissues receive less oxygen, the food necessary to stay healthy.
Damage to blood vessels and airways
The tars damage and obstruct blood vessels. This can aggravate infections cause diseases of the mouth, throat, lungs and bladder.
Smoking is one of the most common causes of impotence. In one study, smoking a pack of snuff per day increases by up to 60% risk of impotence. Read the rest of this entry »
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