The effects of snuff have been proven and are not positive. Every year there are four million deaths from diseases associated with consumption of snuff, according to estimates by the World Health Organization.
In Spain, the effects of snuff also take their toll. Each day about 150 people die from the effects of snuff according to a study of the Sociedad Catalana de Pneumologia (SOCAP) and the Spanish Association Against Cancer of Catalonia.
It is well known that snuff causes lung cancer approximately 90% of cases of this disease relate to snuff.
What else happens in the body by smoking?
Here’s a summary of some of the most common effects of snuff:
* Less oxygen to the organs
* The damage to blood vessels
* Paralyzes respiratory cilia
* Ulcers
* Eye Damages
* It makes you grow old
* Fertility problems
* Impotence
* It affects the health of children
Less oxygen to the organs
The snuff has adverse effects in health © Lorelyn Medina – Fotolia Carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen reaching the organs. The decrease of oxygen can have serious consequences such as heart attacks or strokes. Nicotine also increases heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and coronary flow.
The effects of snuff decreased lung tissue elasticity. Cigarette smoke causes respiratory inflammation and interferes with the normal expansion and contraction of lungs.
Carbon monoxide, the invisible poison in cigarette smoke causes heart disease. Carbon monoxide robs oxygen from blood. As a result, tissues receive less oxygen, the food necessary to stay healthy.
Damage to blood vessels and airways
The tars damage and obstruct blood vessels. This can aggravate infections cause diseases of the mouth, throat, lungs and bladder.
Smoking is one of the most common causes of impotence. In one study, smoking a pack of snuff per day increases by up to 60% risk of impotence.
The snuff also affects the airways. Nicotine prevents movement of respiratory cilia, tiny hairs that cover the inside of our lungs. Thanks to its motion in waves carry unwanted particles along the surface of the mucous lining. Thus, respiratory cilia are responsible for assisting in the task of filtering dust and other substances in the inhaled air.
During smoking, the cilia function and hence will detoriando smokers get more colds and respiratory infections easily.
Snuff smoke can trigger an asthma attack.
Ulcers, eye damage and skin aging
Smokers are more susceptible to gastric and duodenal ulcers. Nicotine reduces the levels of vitamin C and so wounds heal more slowly.
Cigarette smoke, including tar, causing biological changes in the eye leading to vision loss in some smokers.
In addition, each puff of cigarette smoke contains about two trillion free radicals responsible for oxidation and premature skin aging. If you want to look younger image as best you can do is quit.
Fertility problems
The fertility problems generated snuff © Galina Barskaya – Fotolia fumadoray Are you a woman you’re having trouble getting pregnant? Then you should seriously consider quitting. Dutchman According to a report published by the British science journal “Human Fertility” the snuff has an effect ‘devastating’ fertility.
The study was conducted among 8,500 women from twenty to forty years in the Netherlands were subject to fertility treatment. Forty percent of them were addicted to snuff and had smoked at least one cigarette a day during the previous year.
The study indicates that a single cigarette a day reduces the likelihood of women becoming pregnant and increases instead of having the abortion.
The researchers concluded that snuff added ten years for women’s reproductive age, which means that a smoker of thirty years has the same problems that a non-smoker at forty.
The snuff also affects children
Studies of the British Medical Association show that snuff abuse during pregnancy can adversely affect the weight of the unborn baby.
The effects of snuff therefore influence the health of the children of smoking parents.
During its first year of life, children of parents who smoke at home are much more likely to be hospitalized for bronchitis and pneumonia than non-smoking parents.
More than 17,000 children under five are hospitalized annually in British hospitals because of the smoke snuff their parents, according to British newspaper Daily Mail.
