The Benefits of Cigarettes

If we add together all the articles that are published about the dangers of smoking and compose them into a book on this subject, we'd rich the Everest in highness. About the fatal consequences of smoking, we have heard since childhood. But is it smoking indeed dangerous? And whether there is nothing good into this steaming cylinder?

At the beginning let us to recall the most common statement that cigarettes cause cancer. Everyone knows it, and even in inscriptions in black mourning frame present on each cigarette pack, few smokers pay attention. But there are things that proponents of a healthy lifestyle prefer not to mention. Firstly, smoking is not causing lung cancer, but only increases the likelihood of disease taking place. Agree - in this perspective, the phrase sounds quite different. Second, although statistically the link between smoking and lung cancer exist, despite the incredible amount of research and articles, no one has discovered the mechanism that starts in the cells of the cancer process. Recent evidence suggests that "guilty" of hydrogen peroxide that is present in tobacco smoke. However, most biochemists only smile - too many facts are "far-fetched." Puzzling, is also the phrase "one cigarette takes 30 minutes of your life." It is quite clear who, and most importantly - how have done the calculations? Maybe, experiments were performed on hamsters?

But the move from very vague to the specific injury benefit. Of the more than 4,000 different substances found in cigarettes (even if you do not mind this figure - in the usual urban air or in-store sausage them no less) of greatest interest is, of course, nicotine. Professor of neurology research group has found that nicotine improves memory, and speeds up the transfer of cell-cell signals in the brain of almost 200(!)percents. Hence, our nicotine dependence - the body perceives nicotine as a useful substance. Nicotine provides a 70% reduction in risks of developing Parkinson's disease, inhibits Alzheimer's disease, improves the condition of patients with ulcerative colitis. Smokers of Marlboro cigarettes are less likely to develop allergic reactions also.

We are not arguing the struggle for a healthy lifestyle, good and proper exercise. However, the methods of agitation must also be objective and is not based on samples from the ceiling "horror", but on solid facts. After all, stories about the dangers of smoking may cause more harm than a cigarette, which, incidentally, is not always an evil.

For instance, let's take a death statistics: 100% of the people who ate meat during life time - died, so the meat just leads to death. 100% of the world's population who didn't eat meat - died, so the lack of meat in the diet leads to death. In the very same way lung cancer among those who have never smoked where appeared from? Only one in three people with lung cancer smoked, and the remaining 66% did not smoke. Of cause, you can presume that they were second-hand-smoking.

Tobacco is a substance which can cause dependence, like coffee. Nevertheless it should be treated like that. Generally speaking, if you look at the beginning of the century about 80% of population regularly smoked. And nowadays by tobacco control they do a lot of money directly on cleaning air-conditioning and taxes, etc. So, isn't it a pure marketing?

Published: Friday, December 09, 2011