the outdoors will be extended to all public outdoor areas. "These are measures that have a twofold objective: they help reduce PM10, that is the polluting particles harmful to the lungs, and protect the health of citizens from active and passive smoking in public places and also frequented by minors", the Municipality specified of Milan in a note last November.
inhaled with smoke have harmful effects on the respiratory system: they cause phlegm, cough, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, emphysema and even tumors. Just think that 85-90% of lung cancers are mainly caused by smoking.
Smoking also affects the nervous system: nicotine creates, in fact, addiction and tolerance, that is, the tendency to increase the number of cigarettes per day. This also explains why it is so difficult to quit.
and promotes the accumulation of fat in the arteries. In addition, nicotine, through specific receptors, increases heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate, even at rest. The consequences of all this are increased risks of developing diseases such as arteriosclerosis, heart attack, stroke. Here, then, that smokers can experience heartburn and esophagus and, over time, can develop real gastritis and esophagitis.
Fertility can also decrease: in men it reduces the number of viable spermatozoa, in women the number of oocytes capable of being fertilized. In addition, it often causes erectile dysfunction.
We must not forget that it has negative effects on the fetus. In fact, the child may be born underweight, a condition that increases the risk of chronic diseases in adolescence and makes the skin more wrinkled.
Furthermore, even from the first cigarettes smoked, there is a decrease in physical stamina and tiredness is felt. This depends on the fact that, by smoking, the blood is enriched with carbon monoxide, which has the ability to bind to hemoglobin, excluding oxygen: so all organs receive less oxygen and less nourishment, including muscles and brain.
earlier and tends to become yellowish, furthermore the hair becomes more brittle and dull, the teeth darken and the eyes are easily irritated.
Smoke also gives a person an unpleasant odor: it impregnates the hair, breath, clothes and even the environments in which they live.
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