According to authoritative data surveys and studies, China is the most populous country in the world and the country with the largest number of smokers. The total number of smokers in China accounts for about 1/3 of the world's smokers.
In addition, on the mainland, nearly 60% of men over the age of 15 have a history of smoking for many years. Globally, about 5 million people die each year from smoking-related diseases, of which 1.2 million are Chinese. The World Health Organization has also predicted that 100 million young people in China will die prematurely from smoking!
Regarding the harm of cigarettes, I think everyone has known that even cigarette boxes are printed with words that are harmful to health.
Cigarettes are a class of carcinogens, which contain a variety of highly carcinogenic chemicals, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzopyrene, nitrosamines, etc. Long-term large-scale smoking is the most important risk factor for promoting lung cancer.
Not only that, cigarettes are also related to cancer of other organs, such as oral cancer, throat cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, etc.!
In addition to the carcinogenicity of cigarettes, long-term smoking can cause irreversible damage to the endothelium of blood vessels and promote atherosclerosis. At the same time, cigarettes will also promote the secretion of catecholamines, angiotensin, and adrenaline, resulting in increased blood pressure and metabolic disorders. Therefore, in clinical view, it is also the main risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
It is also because the harm of cigarettes everyone has more or less understanding, so there are many smokers began to opportunistic, in their view, the relationship between cigarettes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, are based on a large number of smoking, if I only smoke one cigarette a day, it is not equivalent to not smoking?
So the question is, is there a difference between smoking a cigarette a day and not smoking?
In fact, the problem itself is meaningless, and there is an absolute essential difference between a cigarette a day and a cigarette not smoked. Because not smoking a cigarette is completely non-smoking, completely blocking its association with tobacco. And smoking a cigarette a day is nothing more than smoking. In clinical view, a small amount of smoking is less harmful, just the delusion of smokers!
Many studies and surveys on cigarettes have clearly shown that even if smokers only smoke a cigarette every day, their risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will increase sharply.
Not only that, as long as the cigarette enters the respiratory circulation system with the breath, harmful substances will act directly on the respiratory tract. Even if you only smoke one cigarette a day, lung damage still exists.
Moreover, even after successful future smoking cessation, lung function cannot fully return to the state it was in before smoking. After a smoker successfully quits, the anatomy of the lungs remains abnormal, even for decades.
In the most popular words, whether it is the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular or the lungs, as long as you start smoking, contact with tobacco, no matter how much or how little you smoke, it will cause irreversible damage to the body.
Moreover, the harm of smoking in women is much higher than that of men, and even studies have pointed out that if they smoke a cigarette a day, the risk of coronary heart disease in men is 74%, and that of women is about 119%.
Therefore, you can't take any chances in treating cigarettes, and quitting smoking as soon as possible is the right thing to do. You know, cigarettes do not have a so-called safe dose, as long as they are exposed to it, they will cause damage to the body, but the severity of the damage is different.
Therefore, from now on, we should build confidence in quitting smoking and get rid of tobacco control as soon as possible.