If not to kill, at least smoking will reduce your rights to healthy longer. In addition, smoking will also aggravate the disease you are suffering.
Research has shown that cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, including various toxic in very small doses. In every puff, these toxins will enter through the lungs, and then forward it to the whole body through blood vessels. Some toxins are known as free radicals.
Latest research done by researchers from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan showed that carcinogenic substances in cigarettes, called NNK causes lung cancer.
"NKK makes the accumulation of a protein called DNMT1 in the cell nucleus. Furthermore, DNMT1 gene will make a turn into tumor cells," researchers said in a report published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The researchers also found high levels of DNMT1 in lung cancer patients with a bad diagnosis.
Meanwhile, the nicotine in tobacco smoke causes the adrenal glands produce hormones that increase blood pressure and heart rate so your heart work harder. This is one reason why smokers' risk of suffering a heart attack and stroke.
Smoking also reduces your ability to stay in shape due to spend the necessary oxygen to refresh your body and your brain.
A study by British researchers found that smokers who are infected with HIV is twice as fast to get the onset of AIDS compared with nonsmokers.
