How smoking is a health hazard?

United States the health magazine has published the secret of "smoking hazard" section, detailing the smoking people's quality of life is declining in unconsciously.

1. cigarettes carry germs.

The latest study found that cigarette with many of the bacteria, the bacteria will smoke inhaled process along with it. Their pathogenesis is unknown, but cigarettes carry germs is irrefutable facts.

2. the functions of the smoking of genomes.

Smoking can affect the blood circulation, reduce the genital blood flow, resulting in aroused difficulties (including male and female). 2007 China a major survey also found that 20% of men with erectile dysfunction and smoking.

3. smoking people sleep quality is poor.

United States Johns Hopkins University study found that night waking, smokers still Sleepy's chance to non-smokers in 4 times. The researchers observed the smokers night sleep, the body cannot get nicotine, while appearing to sleep, in fact, it would have been disturbed sleep, sleep loss of quality.

4. smokers bone fragility.

The study found that female smokers smoking 10 years each, bone mineral density decreases 2.3% — 3.3%, decreased bone density will lead to fractures and osteoporosis incidence. In postmenopausal women, the greater the danger.

5. smoking increases the risk of blindness deafness.

Latest research discoveries, compared with non-smokers, smokers risk of hearing loss occurs nearly 70%. A 2 000 men of large-scale survey found that smoking also increases the chance of male eyesight. Smoking also will increase the number one killer of vision "," macular degeneration.

6. smoking love psoriasis.

Several studies have indicated that the daily smoking and increase the risk of psoriasis have great relevance. Every day more than smoking more than 20 root, psoriasis: risk will rise.

7. smokers are mostly cold hands and feet.

Cigarette smoking impedes the smooth operation of the human body the blood circulation, and insufficient blood supply, cold hands and feet to smokers, fingers and toes are more susceptible to frostbite.

8. cigarette + oral contraceptives = heart disease.

United Kingdom latest study found that smoking women while taking the pill, can lead to heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases increased 10 times more likely. The reason for this is that smoking increases blood viscosity, easy cause thrombosis; whereas contraceptives would make blood thicker. "Smoking + contraceptives" dual role, the increasing incidence doubled again.

9. smoking reduce efficacy.

Smoking can affect the liver enzyme treatment drug effect, therefore, smokers is sometimes necessary to increase the dosage to produce the same effect. While smoking, some drug doses are drop.

10. smoking is fire.

The survey found that smokers family member has the risk of burn than smoke-free family members 6.6 times higher. The fire caused the fatal housing a variety of reasons, smoking, 55%, the highest in the first place.

11. smokers looks pretty old.

Smoking can cause skin and vascular damage, increase skin wrinkles, reduced skin elasticity. Teeth of soot, makes a person look very ugly. In addition, compared with non-smokers, smokers early white hair chance high 3-6 times, old and bald chance high 1 times.

12. smoking people pet also loved cancer.

Many studies show that family secondhand smoke not only affecting the elderly, pregnant women and infants ' health, will also increase cancer risk for pets. For example, the cat will be oral cancer and Lymphoma, dog susceptible to lung and nasal carcinoma, birds are susceptible to lung cancer.

13. smoking people love sick.

Netherlands, a new study shows that smokers growing, year round small sick sick leave each year than non-smokers more than 11 days.

14. smoking too not "low-carbon life."

Growing tobacco requires large tracts of forest trees; cleaning with smoke clothes need to consume more water and electricity. Smoking produces carbon emissions are quite high, smoking cessation is to "contribute to emission reduction".

15. smokers family conflicts.

Contradictions by smoking will upgrade from the family's nagging to quarrel, and even divorce. Cigarettes are the result of a family happiness.

16. smokers income lower.

United States Civil Liberties Union rights society throughout the work of the survey data show that smokers than non-smokers 4% average low income — 11%. United States at least 6000 companies plan to trade off smoking behaviour into wage performance management.

17. smoking love traffic accidents.

The Canada School of public health journals published study found that traffic offenders to smokers, smokers and non smokers risk of traffic accidents than 1.5: 1. The reason for this is that smoking increases the excitement of the brain, thereby increasing the possibility of dangerous driving.

18. women smoking infertility rate high.

Smoking will hurt female ovary, accelerate the eggs and the loss of reproductive capacity. The longer the smoking habit heavier, the greater the damage. The study found that 1 year after quitting smoking, female reproductive capacity will be increased by 1/3.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)