Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds, of which over 40 are particularly dangerous because they cause cancer, as well as several hundred poisons: nicotine, benzopyrene, cyanide, arsenic, formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid, etc. Cigarette smoke contains radioactive substances: polonium, lead, bismuth. Nicotine is as toxic as hydrocyanic acid.
A pack of cigarettes a day is about 500 roentgens of radiation per year! The temperature of a smoldering cigarette is 700-900 degrees! The lungs of a long-term smoker are a black, rotting mass. After a drag, nicotine enters the brain within 7 seconds. Nicotine causes vascular spasm, hence the disruption of tissue oxygen supply. Spasm of small vessels makes the skin wither. The harm of smoking is also in the fact that there is an unpleasant smell from the mouth, yellow teeth, sore throat, red eyes from constant irritation of smoke. All over the world, nicotine is considered a legal drug, from it, as from heroin and other hard drugs, addiction develops, but its insidiousness is that this happens unnoticed and for a relatively long time. Our smoking citizens annually smoke 265 billion cigarettes a year, this is about 1800 cigarettes per capita and this figure continues to grow every year.
The harm of smoking is that it causes three main diseases: lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, coronary heart disease. It has long been proven that tobacco is the cause of death from lung cancer in 90% of all cases, from bronchitis and emphysema in 75% and from heart disease in about 25% of all cases. About 25% of regular cigarette smokers will die prematurely because of smoking. Many of this number could have lived 10, 20 or 30 years longer. Those who die as a result of smoking will lose an average of 15 years of their life.
Smoking causes terrible harm, as smokers are 13 times more likely to get angina, 12 times more likely to have a myocardial infarction, 10 times more likely to have a stomach ulcer and 30 times more likely to get lung cancer.
There is no organ that is not affected by tobacco: kidneys and bladder, sex glands and blood vessels, brain and liver.
A lethal dose for an adult is contained in one pack of cigarettes, if smoked at once, and for teenagers - half a pack.
Smoking is harmful to the heart, since the heart rate of a smoker is 15,000 beats per day more than that of a non-smoker, and the delivery of oxygen to tissues and especially the brain is significantly reduced, since the vessels are narrowed, plus carbon monoxide, which better "clings" to hemoglobin and does not allow red blood cells to carry oxygen. This explains why schoolchildren who smoke are significantly behind non-smokers.
The harm of smoking
is also this: in recent years, scientists have been paying close attention to substances that cause cancer. These primarily include benzopyrene and the radioactive isotope polonium-210. If a smoker takes a mouthful of smoke and then exhales it through a handkerchief, a brown stain will remain on the white fabric. This is tobacco tar. It contains especially many substances that cause cancer. If a rabbit's ear is smeared with tobacco tar several times, the animal will develop a cancerous tumor.
Smoking is especially harmful for women, since the first puff causes a sore throat, increased heart rate, a nasty taste in the mouth, coughing, dizziness, nausea and possible vomiting. All this is a manifestation of the body's defense reactions. But a smoker who follows the "new fashion" actively suppresses the body's defenses and continues to puff. With each new puff, the body gives in and gets poisoned, the defense reactions fade away and the smoker does not feel discomfort. With each new pack, the smoker becomes more and more addicted to nicotine. A young girl cannot help but notice that she has a cough (especially in the morning), hoarseness, bad breath, flabby skin, yellow teeth and, in general, the girl looks older than her peers, nevertheless, she continues to smoke, although she tries to
reduce the harm from chickensing
, switching to light and "women's" (thin) cigarettes. But nicotine addiction has already formed, and the body begins to demand its dose of nicotine, and the girl has to smoke 2 "women's" packs instead of one regular pack to get her dose of nicotine. Tobacco companies have known this for a long time, so they took this step and released supposedly harmless cigarettes, although the harm turns out to be even greater and the income from sales too. Competent advertising campaigns make smokers believe that it is less harmful, although this is all a lie! Many girls also notice that a cigarette reduces stress, this makes you even more dependent on the cigarette, smokers do not know how to deal with stress otherwise.
Because of the harm of smoking, women have an increased incidence of inflammatory diseases, which leads to infertility. German gynecologist Bernhard, having examined about 6 thousand women, found that infertility was observed in 42% of smoking women, and in only 4% of non-smoking women. Tobacco causes 96% of miscarriages, 1/3 of premature babies.
Tobacco destroys those who smoke, and those who are born from smokers, and those who are near smokers.
Women who smoke, as a rule, age early, and their sexual fading occurs prematurely.
Research has confirmed the fact that people with mental disorders are prone to smoking. It turned out that people with mental disorders smoke 40% more than those without mental disorders. Doctors are sure that smoking and mental disorders mutually reinforce each other.
There is more and more data about the harm of smoking for others. As a result of passive smoking, 3 thousand people die from lung cancer every year, and up to 62 thousand from heart disease. 2.7 thousand children die from the same cause as a result of the so-called sudden infant death syndrome. The risk of developing not only lung cancer, but also some other types of this terrible disease increases significantly.
The risk of spontaneous miscarriage increases. If expectant mothers are exposed to tobacco smoke, they more often give birth to children with various defects, primarily neuropsychiatric, as well as low birth weight (9.7-18.6 thousand such newborns per year).
It has been established that more than 50 components of tobacco smoke are carcinogenic, 6 have a detrimental effect on the ability to bear children and the general development of the child. In general, inhaling tobacco smoke is much more dangerous for children. Thus, passive smoking annually causes asthma in 8-26 thousand children, bronchitis - in 150-300 thousand, with 7.5 to 15.6 thousand children being hospitalized, and 136 to 212 of them dying.
A survey of more than 32 thousand passive "smoking" women, which was conducted by specialists from Harvard University, showed that representatives of the fair sex, regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home and at work, suffer from heart disease 1.91 times more often than those who do not inhale it.
If a woman smokes passively only occasionally, the incidence rate decreases
to 1.58.
According to data collected by the American Heart Association, if they smoke in the house, this has an extremely unfavorable effect on children with high cholesterol in the blood. Cigarette smoke reduces their levels of so-called good cholesterol, which protects against heart disease.
Smoking is a habit that is unpleasant to the eyes, unbearable to the sense of smell, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
"For them, the Slavs, there is no hygiene, only vodka and tobacco" A. Hitler
Even if Hitler knew and understood the harm of smoking and imposed it on the Slavs, today the Slavs drink, smoke, and use drugs exclusively on their own, after watching advertising or under the influence of others.
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