Can You Believe It ???

Fact 1 War of the Worlds

In the UK Anti-Tobacco Service has made regulations under which the nonsmoking employee may demand compensation. The first such compensation in the amount of 25 thousand dollars has received an employee from one of London firms, suffering from chronic bronchitis. Since 1993, Britain banned smoking in suburban trains. In Norway, is forbidden to smoke everywhere except own home and car. In Belgium is forbidden to smoke indoors where there are children in medical institutions, at the workplace, at the train station and in public places. In Japan and Finland the medical activity is considered incompatible with smoking...!

Fact 2 Smoking Child

Children of smoking mothers at birth weigh on average 200 grams less than babies of nonsmoking. All hazardous substances at the first puff penetrate through the placenta and enter the body of the child. Moreover the concentration of nicotine, carbon monoxide benzopyrene and other substances in the fetal blood is higher than in maternal blood. The child in the womb is constantly experiencing oxygen deprivation because of nicotine occurs spasm of cerebral vessels of the fetus. The risk of adverse pregnancy outcome does not depend on the number of cigarettes smoked, and is in direct proportion to the fact of smoking...!

Fact 3 Lung Cancer

Mankind has learned about the harmful effects of smoking only in the 50s of last century, up to this point the doctors were convinced of the absolute harmlessness of tobacco. The active struggle against smoking began in the 70s when it was established a direct relationship between smoking and lung cancer...!

Fact 4 infertility

Smoking can cause infertility in young women. Aromatic hydrocarbons, which are an integral part of tobacco smoke cause death of oocytes. These substances entering the body, act with specific proteins - receptors. This interaction triggers the death of oocytes. Scientists claim that the risk of infertility is especially dangerous in women who are addicted to smoking at a young age. Menopause occurs 3 years earlier in women who smoke than in non-smokers...!

Fact 5 Hookah - is not an alternative to cigarette smoking

Hookah smoking is not an alternative to smoking cigarettes. When smoking a hookah the organism receives 2 times more tar, carbon monoxide and 3 times more nicotine. The increase of harmful doses is related to the fact that smoking a hookah takes 45minutes, but most often the time is increased up to several hours, so that the body receives a high dose of carcinogens. In addition, the collective hookah smoking contributes to the transmission of infectious diseases. Doctors speak about the emergence of ”hookah dependence” as this hobby in recent years is very widespread in Europe, USA and Canada...!

Fact 6 Vaccine against smoking

In 2011 is expected the completion of clinical trials of vaccine against smoking. Its effect is the formation of antibodies that prevent the flow of nicotine into the brain. The immune system perceives nicotine as a foreign substance and completely inactivates its effect on the body. A smoker does not get any pleasure from cigarettes. Doctors expect that vaccination will be conducted once a year...!

Fact 7 Hidden evidence of harm

Evidence of harm from passive smoking were obtained in 1982, in one of the laboratories of Philip Morris, but this information reached the public only in 1992. In the early eighties, researchers conducted experiments during which lab animals were exposed to tobacco smoke at much lower concentrations than with active smoking. In these experiments, in animals were formed ulcers on the nasal mucosa, and then increased incidence of malignant neoplasms of the upper respiratory tract infections. The largest cigarette company concealed this scientific data 10 years...!

Fact 8 Reduced longevity

Smoking kills about half of those who started smoking in adolescence and will continue to smoke during their lifetime. Forty years of research in the developed world have proven that smoking kills about half of the persistent smokers who are addicted to this habit in adolescence and half of them - until they reach the age of 70....!

Fact 9 Alcohol and smoking

Alcohol inhibits the enzymes that process in the body foreign substances. Harmful components of tobacco smoke are longer in the body, thereby increasing the duration of tobacco intoxication, increased intake of nicotine and other substances in the brain. Alcohol and harmful components of cigarette smoke “complement” and reinforce each other’s action...!

Fact 10. ” Bunch “ diseases

Consequence of the continuous smoking is a ”bunch” of disease: malignant tumors of the lung, larynx, oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, ureter, uterus, pancreas, stomach. Chronic infection due to decreased immunity. Chronic lung disease, primarily chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, occlusive disease (“disease of smokers”)...!

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