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| Tobacco and damage |
2008-1-28 14:56:00
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Tobacco contains benzene and tar, and many other radioactive substances can cause carcinogenic. Some studies show that 90% of patients with lung cancer are caused by smoking. Past research has proved that, in the Western countries, at least 60% of the male bladder cancer patients are caused by smoking, and oral cancer and laryngeal cancer, and so on. Because the past tobacco products containing mold, and could have a higher risk of causing cancer.
Smoking will cause pulmonary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal diseases, various tumors and could enhance diabetes, cause senile dementia, and other common disease. Smoking infertile men are six times higher than non-smokers; smoking can not only reduce the sperm count, but also cause sperm abnormalities and can lead to impotence.
Smoking will reduce estrogen level in the blood, damage the blood vessels and connective tissue that is vital to maintaining the elasticity of skin, skin becomes dry and relaxation, resulting in the obvious "smoking face," and disrupt the youth beautiful beauty. The rate of wrinkles of the smoking women is three times of the non-smokers.
Comparing the smoking and non-smoking women, the possibility for the smoking women suffering from infertility is 2.7 times higher. Smoking mothers will not only affect their own physical health but also bring disaster to the next generation, such as the newborn's physique poor, light weight, high mortality; the chance for the babies suffering from congenital heart disease is 2 times higher than the normal babies.
Smoking may also result in the deterioration and slow gastric ulcer healing. Female smoking can lead to amenorrhea and increase the risk of suffering from osteomalacia. Research shows that half of the smoker are died of tobacco-induced diseases in their middle age or older.
Harm for passive smoking would be much more serious than that in the past awareness, the risk for the women living smokers suffering from lung cancer is far stronger than other women suffering from lung cancer, the risk is 2.6-6 times of them.
Pregnant women can pass genetic damage to their babies by smoking. After lit a cigarette, there would be dozens of harmful substances, including carbon monoxide, nicotine and other alkaloids. Smoking is the independent factor for proteinuria. The formation and development of proteinuria and renal disease of the young diabetes are all smoking-related, the smokers, the progress of proteinuria and retinopathy are faster than that of the non-smokers, and patients stop smoking would improve the proteinuria rapidly. In the United States each year, 170,000 coronary heart disease and 130,000 cancer patients died of smoking. In patients with ischemic heart disease, smokers have the rate of cardiac arrest are 4 times more than the non-smokers; smokers has lung cancer mortality is 10.8 times of the non-smokers. The smoke is easy to be absorbed in the time of meal, and is more easily to induce cancer, the specific risk of gastric cancer of the daily smokers are 30.1% more than the non-smokers.
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