FumeursLa tobacco smoke contains nicotine.
,
The habitual smoker thus present in
a blood nicotine more or less important.
This drug causes ADDICTION AND
DEPENDENCE.
Indeed, nicotine concentrations
(blood nicotine) is becoming a necessity in smokers.
The lower nicotine causes cravings
for another cigarette again raise the blood levels of nicotine.
Lack causes discomfort, such as the
lack of any other drug.
- However, the nicotine causes
tachycardia (fast heartbeat), increased blood pressure, nervousness or
irritability significant.
- It has a more detrimental effect
on memory.
- Also smoking has an adverse effect
on cholesterol, in fact, it raises the "bad" cholesterol (LDL), and
reduced levels of "good" cholesterol (HDL) in the blood (see
ATHEROSCLEROSIS) .
- Smoking seriously lowers the
levels of vitamin C in the blood.
- It leads to hypoxia (decreased
blood oxygen) and thus has an important influence in ATHEROSCLEROSIS.
- His negative role in ulcer of the
stomach is shown.
- The harmful influence of tobacco
is certain the blood it causes vasoconstriction (that is to say, the decrease
in arterial caliber).
In particular, you should know that
the first puff of a cigarette causes immediate coronary spasm, that is to say a
sharp narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply the heart.
- So, the responsibility of tobacco
is high in relation arteritis: ARTERITIS LOWER LIMBS or coronary artery disease
(see ANGINA).
This is why tobacco is strictly
prohibited arteritis and people who made INFARCTION or suffering from ANGINA.
Furthermore, tobacco is quite
contraindicated in pregnant women, women who smoke give birth to low birth
weight children (smaller than normal children) whose psychomotor development
will be slower.
Some U.S. studies suggest that these
children then have a school behind the other children.
Finally, be aware that the act of
smoking for pregnant women predisposes a child to cancer much later in life.
- In addition, it is impossible to
overstate the detrimental role of tobacco in the pathogenesis (strict
liability) of chronic bronchitis and chronic respiratory failure.
- Finally, of course, everyone knows
that the main cause of lung cancer is tobacco, which is also called into
question (especially if the tobacco poisoning is associated with alcohol
intoxication) in cancer of the tongue, larynx, pharynx, esophagus.
- Less well known, but still some,
the role of tobacco is greatest in the mechanism of induction of cancer of the
bladder.
Truly, smoking is a social scourge.
It is essential that governments
take more provisions to prohibit smoking in public places and the workplace
(see PASSIVE SMOKING).
A number of associations have been
in the fight against smoking. The most important seems to be the NATIONAL
COMMITTEE AGAINST SMOKING.
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