What are the dangers of smoking and alcoholism

Many people have the habit of smoking and drinking, and such lifestyle is not good for their health at all. The smoking habit can cause lung and respiratory diseases in the body. The habit of excessive drinking may lead to many diseases of the liver and stomach. The habits of smoking and drinking have no benefits for the treatment of some diseases. So what are the dangers of smoking and drinking? Let us introduce it in detail below.

Everyone may know that alcoholics are more likely to develop liver cancer. The main harmful substance in wine is alcohol (scientific name ethanol). Poor quality wine also contains more harmful substances such as methanol and formaldehyde. The toxins produced by excessive alcohol intake cannot be broken down by the human liver. These toxins not only damage other cells such as brain cells, but also accumulate in the liver, slowly causing liver cells to become cancerous and form liver cancer.

The substances harmful to the human body produced by burning cigarettes can be roughly divided into six categories:

(1) Aldehydes, nitrides, and olefins: these substances are irritating to the respiratory tract.

(2) Nicotine can stimulate the sympathetic nerves and cause damage to the vascular endothelium.

(3) Amines, cyanides and heavy metals, all of which are toxic substances.

(4) Benzopyrene, arsenic, cadmium, methylhydrazine, aminophenol, and other radioactive substances are all carcinogenic.

(5) Phenolic compounds and formaldehyde, etc. These substances have the effect of accelerating carcinogenesis.

(6) Carbon monoxide can reduce the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen throughout the body.

As mentioned above, cigarettes contain more than 30 carcinogens, which are the main cause of lung cancer. They can induce the occurrence of many diseases, increase the incidence of many diseases, and accelerate and worsen the development of many diseases. Every 6 seconds, one person in the world dies from diseases caused by smoking. Every cigarette smoked is equivalent to living 11 minutes less.

The dangers of smoking and drinking are as introduced above. If such lifestyle habits are not improved well, the body will easily develop respiratory diseases, liver diseases, or diseases in other parts of the body such as stomach. This situation is not good for your health. Be sure to quit these habits as soon as possible.