Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
We kept on hearing and seeing this message, right?
But how come a lot of people are still smoking cigars?
Aren’t they aware of its bad result?
As per US study, smoking causes an estimated 90% of
all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.
Also, they mentioned that 90% of all deaths from
chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.
Do you think people knew about this?
If yes, how come they kept on smoking cigarettes? If no, why aren’t they
aware? Isn’t it that each cigar package has its own label of “CIGARETTE SMOKING
IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH”?
People are already aware of danger that is brought by cigarettes but how
come they are still doing it?
According to some studies, we aren’t aware about the good side of
smoking cigarettes. Yes, you heard that right, they mentioned that there is
still a good result when smoking. What are those?
A study by Korean researchers in the October 2010 issue of the journal
Thrombosis Research builds upon work by Harvard researchers published in 2009
that demonstrates the benefit of smoking at least 10 cigarettes a day. It seems
that something in cigarette smoke activates certain proteins called
cytochromes, which convert clopidogrel into a more active state.
Korean researchers mentioned on their article the four good side of
smoking cigar.
1. Smoking lowers risk of knee-replacement
surgery
While smokers might go broke buying a pack of
cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery.
Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less
risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never
smoked.
The study, from the University of Adelaide in
Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among
joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to bemorbidly
obese.
After controlling for age, weight and
exercise, the researchers were at a loss to explain the apparent, albeit slight
protective effects of smoking for osteoporosis. It could be that the nicotine
in tobacco helps prevent cartilage and joint deterioration.
2. Smoking lowers risk of Parkinson's disease
Numerous studies have identified the uncanny
inverse relationship between smoking and Parkinson's disease. Long-term smokers
are somehow protected against Parkinson's, and it's not because smokers die of
other things earlier.
The most recent, well-conducted study was
published in a March 2010 issue of the journal Neurology. Far from determining
a cause for the protective effect, these researchers found that the number of
years spent smoking, more so than the number of cigarettes smoked daily,
mattered more for a stronger protective effect.
Harvard researchers were among the first to
provide convincing evidence that smokers were less likely to develop
Parkinson's. In a study published in Neurology in March 2007, these researchers
found the protective effect wanes after smokers quit. And they concluded, in
their special scientific way, that they didn't have a clue as to why.
3. Smoking lowers
risk of obesity
Smoking — and, in particular, the nicotine in tobacco smoke — is an
appetite suppressant. This has been known for centuries, dating back to
indigenous cultures in America in the pre-Columbus era. Tobacco companies
caught on by the 1920s and began targeting women with the lure that smoking
would make them thinner.
A study published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Physiology &
Behavior, in fact, is one of many stating that the inevitable weight gain upon
quitting smoking is a major barrier in getting people to stop, second only to
addiction.
The relationship between smoking and weight control is
complex: Nicotine itself acts as both a stimulant and appetite suppressant; and
the act of smoking triggers behavior modification that prompts smokers to snack
less. Smoking also might make food less tasty for some smokers, further curbing
appetite. As an appetite suppressant, nicotine appears to act on a part of the
brain called the hypothalamus, at least in mice, as revealed in a study by Yale
researchers published in the June 10, 2011, issue of the journal Science.
No respectable doctor would recommend smoking for weight control, given
the toxic baggage accompanying cigarettes. This recent Yale study, however,
does offer an inkling of hope for a safe diet drug to help obese people control
their appetites.
4. Smoking lowers
risk of death after some heart attacks
Compared with non-smokers, smokers who have had heart attacks seem to
have lower mortality rates and more favorable responses to two kinds of therapy
to remove plaque from their arteries: fibrinolytic therapy, which is basically
medication; and angioplasty, which removes the plaque by inserting balloons or
stents into the arteries.
There's a catch, though. The reason why smokers have heart attacks is that
smoke scars the arteries, allowing fat and plaque to build up in the first
place. So, one theory as to why smokers do better than non-smokers after such
therapies is that they are younger, experiencing their first heart attack
approximately 10 years before the non-smoker.
A study published in an August 2005 issue of the American Heart Journal,
however, states that age alone is not enough to fully explain the survival
differences and that "the smoker's paradox is alive and well."
No alternative theories have been put forth since.
5. Smoking helps
the heart drug clopidogrel work better
Clopidogrel is a drug used to inhibit blood clots for those patients
suffering from coronary artery disease and other circulatory diseasesleading to strokes and heart attacks. Smoking
seems to help clopidogrel do its job better.
However, despite these good sides of smoking, still we aren’t
encouraging everyone to smoke. Remember, there are still multiple bad effects
of smoking.
What are those?
First, Smoking causes death -
The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for more than 440,000
deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths, each year.
·
More deaths
are caused each year by tobacco use than by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),
illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders
combined.
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If nobody
smoked, one of every three cancer deaths in the Philippines would not happen.
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Smoking causes
an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer
deaths in women.
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An estimated
90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.
Compared with nonsmokers, smoking
is estimated to increase the risk of the following:
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Coronary heart
disease by 2 to 4 times,
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Stroke by 2 to
4 times,
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Men developing
lung cancer by 23 times,
·
Women
developing lung cancer by 13 times, and
·
Dying from
chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by
12 to 13 times.
Smoking causes coronary heart
disease, the leading cause of death in the United States and so as here in the
Philippines.
·
Cigarette
smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries)
and puts smokers at risk of developing peripheral vascular disease (i.e.,
obstruction of the large arteries in the arms and legs that can cause a range
of problems from pain to tissue loss or gangrene).
·
Smoking causes
abdominal aortic aneurysm (i.e., a swelling or weakening of the main artery of
the body—the aorta—where it runs through the abdomen).
·
Cigarette
smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries)
and puts smokers at risk of developing peripheral vascular disease (i.e.,
obstruction of the large arteries in the arms and legs that can cause a range
of problems from pain to tissue loss or gangrene).
·
Smoking causes
abdominal aortic aneurysm (i.e., a swelling or weakening of the main artery of
the body—the aorta—where it runs through the abdomen).
Not only that, smoking also cause MULTIPLE variations of CANCER, those
are:
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Acute myeloid
leukemia
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Bladder cancer
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Cancer of the
cervix
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Cancer of the
esophagus
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Kidney cancer
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Cancer of the
larynx (voice box)
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Lung cancer
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Cancer of the
oral cavity (mouth)
·
Pancreatic
cancer
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Cancer of the pharynx
(throat)
·
Stomach cancer
Smoking also has many adverse reproductive and early childhood effects,
including increased risk for:
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Infertility
·
Preterm
delivery
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Stillbirth
·
Low birth
weight
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Sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS)
It is also more dangerous for
women to smoke, why? Because,
·
Postmenopausal
women who smoke have lower bone density than women who never smoked.
·
Women who
smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than women who never smoked.
We are really hoping that a lot of people will know the danger that they
will get when they smoke. There are lots of bad effects than good effects that come
from smoking.
Are you also thinking what’s inside of those cigarettes? As we
continuously doing our research, we’ve found that each cigar consists of:
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Tar - This ingredient, which gives cigarettes flavor, is the same thick
black substance used to pave roads and driveways.
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Formaldehyde - This is the same stuff used to preserve
dead animals, like the frogs dissected in some biology classes.
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Cyanide - also a main ingredient in rat poison.
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Lead - It's also found in some kinds of paint.
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Acetone - a common ingredient in paint and nail polish remover.
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Ammonia - Besides the fact that it's in many household cleaners, it's also in
cigarettes.
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Carbon monoxide - a common pollutant and the same stuff that
escapes from the exhaust in cars.
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Hydrazine - a chemical used in jets and rocket fuel.
But not only that, there are
also some other gross stuff is in there too like:
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Acetone - Nail Polish Remover
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Acetic Acid - Vinegar
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Ammonia: Floor /Toilet Cleaner
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Arsenic: Poison
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Benzene
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Butane: Lighter Fluid
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Cadmium: NiCad Batteries
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Carbon Monoxide: Car Exhaust Fumes
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Cyanide: Metabolic Poison
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Chloroform: Anesthetic
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DDT/Dieldrin: Insecticides
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Ethanol: Alcohol
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Formaldehyde: Preserver (Body, Tissue and Fabric)
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Hexamine: Barbecue Lighter
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Methane: Swamp Gas
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Methanol: Rocket Fuel
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Napthalene: Mothballs
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Nicotine: Insecticide, Addictive Drug
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Nitrobenzene: Gasoline Additive
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Nitrous Oxide Phenols : Disinfectant
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Stearic Acid: Candle Wax
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Toluene: Industrial Solven
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Vinyl Chloride: Makes PVC
So it only means that when
you smoke, literally those ingredients that have been mentioned are entering
your body going through your lungs. Our lungs suffer a lot and in the end, it
will stop working which will lead you to death.
Are you smoking? You better
stop as early as now, or else, you know what will happen SOON.
