In the modern world, smoking is an integral companion and one of the most common bad habits of more than one third of humanity. Many scientists put nicotine addiction on a par with drug addiction. The harm caused to the smoker's body by the cigarette is simply colossal, although it can be invisible in short life spans. In this article, we will try to answer the question of why smoking is not allowed?
What is cigarette smoke?
They say a drop of nicotine can kill a horse. And this is not a sarcastic expression, because if you look at the composition of cigarette smoke, you can understand how a cigarette destroys the body. On average, tobacco smoke contains more than 3,000 chemical compounds. And in one pack of cigarettes - about 130 mg of nicotine. There are poisons there, among which: cyanide, arsenic, hydrocyanic acid. But that is not all. In addition, radioactive substances such as polonium, lead, and others are present in tobacco smoke. And this is not to mention that every year, up to 80 kg of tar passes through the smoker's lungs , settling to some extent in the organs themselves.
Smoking harm
Why can not smoke? This question can be asked only by those who have not yet realized all the harm from smoking.
Cigarettes stimulate the development of severe chronic diseases. The damage that smoking causes to humanity can only be compared with the damage from wars and major technological disasters. According to the World Health Organization, one in five deaths among people in a year on the planet is caused by smoking.
Often you can hear that every smoked cigarette takes 5 minutes from life. In fact, this is not a fiction of fighters for a healthy lifestyle, since harmful substances in tobacco smoke activate the biological aging process of the body.
Tobacco negatively affects the central nervous system of a person. Who smokes will understand. After all, when a nicotine hunger begins, a person experiences a severe nervous breakdown.
Smoking can cause diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Many people become blind because of frequent smoking.
It would seem that a pack of cigarettes, which is sold on every corner, is not capable of causing such diseases, but is only a kind of habitual sedative. Why can’t you smoke from time to time to calm yourself? Because tobacco smoke can cause much more serious diseases. A person who constantly smokes, blood vessels narrow, problems with the heart, which is decreasing, appear. The brain from a constant deficiency of blood and oxygen undergoes changes. All this affects not only the well-being of the body, but also can affect its physical condition.
And most importantly, smoking is the cause of cancers that are not treatable. Daily inhalation of tobacco smoke increases the risk of malignant tumors by 10 times, especially in those places where nicotinic acid accumulates - the oral cavity, lungs, and stomach. All these diseases in 99 cases out of 100 are fatal.
Why can not smoke before conceiving a child?
Everyone knows that smoking during pregnancy will not lead to anything good. However, the fact that smoking before conceiving a child is far from harmless is rarely considered.
Firstly, the chances of having a baby are reduced significantly. In a smoking man, the number of working sperm is reduced by 17%, and those that remain have low viability.
Secondly, a bad genetic history can be transmitted to the child. Under the influence of negative substances contained in tobacco smoke, the genetic material in the sperm is damaged. And this subsequently can lead to an abortion or the birth of a child with painful pathologies.
Thirdly, if a woman smokes, then the chances of becoming pregnant with her tend to zero, due to infertility.
Why can not smoking while breastfeeding?
Every woman who breastfeeds her baby and wants to enjoy smoking at the same time should know that nicotine is a drug saturated with a huge amount of toxic substances. He, like the harmful components of alcohol, is able to accumulate in mother's milk, turning it into poison. This is why you should not drink and smoke while breastfeeding. A child of such a mother loses sleep and appetite. In his autonomic nervous system, disturbances occur, which in the future can lead to a lag in development. The baby's immunity decreases, various allergies appear. And the worst part is that a child can simply die.
Therefore, it is always worth remembering that it is unlikely that your whim and momentary weakness are worth the prosperous life and good health of the child.
Sports and nicotine
Why can’t you smoke after training? Sports and smoking are incompatible things. It seems that the judgment is unambiguous and unconditional. But not everyone understands and realizes the degree of poisoning of the athlete's body with tobacco smoke. And some naively believe that they compensate for their harmful dependence by physical activity. So, the heart of a person involved in sports experiences certain loads, and nicotine increases them significantly.
As already mentioned earlier, the smoker's blood vessels narrow, due to which human tissues begin to experience oxygen deficiency, and blood pressure rises. Muscle tone decreases, protein synthesis decreases, and muscles stop growing and developing.
Under the influence of harmful tobacco substances, the central nervous system is in a depressed state, which reduces coordination and dexterity.
Experts estimate that 1-2 cigarettes smoked per month will nullify all the athlete’s efforts to develop their own achievements.
The harm of secondhand smoke
Passive smoking or inhalation of air, which contains tobacco smoke, has the same effect on the human body as a smoker.
With a single and short inhalation of tobacco smoke, all harmful substances are eliminated from the body, however, prolonged exposure provokes cough, shortness of breath, weakness. In addition, second-hand smoke contributes to lung cancer. The development of this disease in a non-smoker who lives next to the smoker increases by 20-30%. In Russia, more than 3,500 people die every year from lung cancer. Moreover, the cause of the disease is second-hand smoke. That's why you can’t smoke and live next to a smoker.