Nicotine – an alkaloid contained in tobacco leaves and stems. When smoking is inhaled with the smoke enters the lungs through the bloodstream, overcoming the blood brain barrier and in a few seconds to fall in the central nervous system. Another point of action of nicotine are autonomic ganglia.
Carbon monoxide (carbon monoxide) is a highly toxic component oftobacco smoke. The mechanism of pathogenic action of carbon monoxide is simple: entering into a relationship with hemoglobin,carbon monoxide forms carboxyhemoglobin compound. It interferes with the normal delivery of oxygen to organs and tissues, resulting inchronic hypoxia develops. Particularly harmful influence on the carbon monoxide body of a pregnant woman, the embryo and fetus.
Lung Cancer
Smoking is the cause of one third of all deaths from malignant disease., Tumors. If you smoke more than 10 daily cigarettes, thereby to raise 24 times as likely to get lung cancer.
Chronic bronchitis
In this disease the airways, leading to the lungs are narrowed and damaged a large portion of lung tissue is destroyed. At the time, when there is shortness of breath, almost the entire surface of the bronchial mucosa is destroyed. Only in the last year of chronic bronchitis in the country killed more than 30,000 people. You could be next.
Diseases of the heart and blood vessels
The cause of sudden death, dead people, against the general welfare, is a spasm of blood vessels due to smoking and as a consequence of coronary heart disease (CHD). In our country in a flourishing age of the main cause of death is coronary artery disease.Smokers twice as likely to die than non-smokers.
The influence of smoking on sexual function.
At 3 times more common cases of impotence in men compared with non-smokers. Frigid women smokers is 2.5 times more frequently than non-smokers. This is due to the fact that nicotine promotes vasoconstriction genitals.
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