It is an indisputable fact that smoking is harmful to health. It will definitely not take special care of women, but will only hurt them more, because women are weaker than men.
American medical experts recently released a 675-page report, pointing out that cigarettes pose a serious threat to women's health and life in modern life. The figures disclosed in the report are shocking: 400,000 people in the United States die of smoking-related diseases every year, of which 39% are women, more than double the figure of 1965. What's more, many young women are involved in the ranks of smokers. This report is a wake-up call for people who have been unable to face up to this problem-worldwide, a woman dies of smoking every 3.5 seconds.
In 2000, 67,600 women in the United States died of lung cancer and 40,800 died of breast cancer, a difference of more than 27,000. From 1950 to today, the number of women who died of lung cancer has increased by more than 600%. One in five women in America smokes. To make matters worse, more young women, that is, female smokers between 10 and 20 years old, increased by 30% compared with 10 years ago. In the United States, 29.7% of middle school girls are attached to cigarettes. Every year in the United States, 6.5438+0.26 million women die from smoking-related syndrome, and 3,500 babies die from their mothers smoking during pregnancy.
Zhu, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a professor of respiratory medicine at Union Medical College Hospital, told the author: In the 1960s and 1970s, the proportion of women suffering from lung cancer was very small, but now the number of women suffering from lung cancer has increased significantly, mainly due to the surge in female smokers. 30% of chronic bronchitis and emphysema are also caused by smoking.
According to experts, because women have the characteristics of reproductive system and bearing offspring, they are hurt more seriously than men. In other words, smoking harms men and is suitable for women. In addition, smoking also brings many harms to women:
Smoking will have a bad effect on the next generation's respiratory tract;
The risk of ectopic pregnancy among smokers is 40% higher than that of non-smokers.
The probability of infertility in smoking women is 2.7 times that of non-smoking women;
The chance of getting cervical cancer is 50% higher, because the uterus of smokers lacks Langerhans cells. When the human body is threatened by some viruses or chemicals, Langerhans cells can enhance the immune system. In addition, carbon monoxide produced during smoking is inhaled into pregnant women and combined with hemoglobin, which seriously affects the oxygen transmission function and greatly affects the fetal brain tissue, leading to abortion or fetal hypoplasia;
Women who smoke for more than 20 years have an increased risk of breast cancer by 30%;
Smokers have many wrinkles in their eyes. This is because smokers often squint their eyes without self-study, forming habits over time, leading to wrinkles in their eyes. Moreover, the volatiles of cigarettes have great stimulation to the eyes, which makes the eyes open and close at times, leading to eyelid relaxation and fatigue, loss of elasticity and formation of bags under the eyes.
Smokers have dark skin, gaunt face and listlessness, because smoking reduces the blood circulation of human skin, makes the upper eyelid or lower eyelid of smokers radiate at right angles, and has deep wrinkles on cheeks and jaws. Some people have rough skin under their cheeks, slightly gray, yellow or purplish red, which makes people prematurely aging.
Smoking will also greatly increase the possibility of menstrual pain, fragile bones, urinary incontinence and decreased breast milk secretion.
Women who smoke are almost twice as likely to develop early-onset rheumatoid arthritis as non-smokers. Dr Kenneth Siegel of Birmingham University in Alabama and his colleagues analyzed the health records of more than 30,000 women aged 55-69. The results show that women who still smoke are almost twice as likely to suffer from early-onset rheumatoid arthritis as women who never smoke. Women who used to smoke are more likely to get sick than women who never smoked, and women who quit smoking for more than 10 years before participating in the study will not get sick.
According to a survey conducted by China Medical Forum, pregnant women smoke more than 10 cigarettes every day, and the incidence of premature infants is 44.8%, which is twice that of non-smokers. According to the study of 10 by the Federal Center for Disease Control in the United States, 66.7% of the babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy were born with a light weight of less than 2,500 grams, so it is more likely that the babies will survive and become mentally retarded or demented. After investigating more than 60 thousand female smokers, British scholars found that the probability of birth defects caused by smoking in pregnant women is much higher than that of the general population.
Blue smoke dances in women's tongues and hearts. The light and spicy taste makes women enjoy the elegance brought by pain. Someone once described a scene like this: exotic coffee house, single woman, coffee, a burning cigarette-this is a strange scenery, moving and intoxicating. It represents lonely romance, romantic despair, desperate elegance and elegant destruction. It is this complex emotion that surrounds cigarettes around women, and this unspeakable charm is a great support for women's psychological characteristics.
However, the naked figure and amazing "care" have made female smokers suffer unimaginable punishment in this process. Damaged health, no beauty, only fleeting feelings, dear women, what choice do you have to make?