What are the dangers of smoking and drinking

Many diseases in the human body are often directly related to one's own bad living and eating habits. Bad living habits and eating habits can cause many disease symptoms in the body. Such as smoking and drinking. If you cannot quit this habit for a long time, it will not be good for your health. So what are the dangers of smoking and drinking? Let us introduce it below.

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.

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 above are the dangers of smoking and drinking. If these symptoms are not actively improved in normal times, it will have a very bad impact on the body. In addition, it will also have an impact on the treatment of some physical diseases. Therefore, you must quit smoking and drinking, and maintain good living and eating habits to ensure good health.