Are tea and cigarettes healthy?

Tea cigarettes: Tea cigarettes use tea leaves instead of cut tobacco in traditional cigarettes. After the tea is lit, it is smoked, which has the shape of a traditional cigarette, but there is no cut tobacco. Drinking tea is actually "drinking tea", which is basically harmless to the body.

Drinking tea is very different from drinking tea. Tea is not good for human body after burning. Drinking tea can soak caffeine, tea polyphenols, amino acids, vitamins and other substances in tea into water and then be absorbed by the human body.

After tea is burned, most of the caffeine in tea is sublimated and lost, and tea polyphenols, amino acids and vitamins are decomposed or denatured. Most of the released substances are harmful to human body, such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and inhalable particles.

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Yang Yajun, director of the Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has reservations: "So far, there is no scientific research result to prove that the effective components of tea such as tea polyphenols, theanine and minerals can be absorbed by the human body by pumping water." At the same time, he believes that dust particles and gas produced by tea burning are harmful to human lungs.

According to Luo Liewan, the chief tea expert in Zhejiang Province, "tea" and "smoke" are incompatible. He said: "Tea is a healthy drink, smoking is harmful to health, and the combination of tea and cigarettes is incompatible. Of course, smoking is a special tea-making process, and some teas need this process.

Taking the competition in Zhengshan as an example, it is necessary to achieve its unique quality style through traditional smoking methods. However, with the continuous improvement of people's health needs, the international market and relevant health departments believe that traditional smoking methods have adverse factors on human health. Luo Liewan stressed that it is still necessary to advocate a healthy lifestyle of "no smoking, less drinking and more tea".

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