03/27/2020
Just one cigarette a day has serious consequences for your health. A study has now proven this.
A cigarette is not a cigarette? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! A study by University College London and the University of London has commissioned the Cancer Research UK published a study dealing with the consequences of one cigarette a day.
If smokers reduce daily amount of cigarettes, they often think they are doing a disservice to their health. But far from it. As the study shows, even a single cigarette a day puts the smoker’s health at risk.
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Increased risk of stroke and heart disease
The risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) increases in women – who only smoke one cigarette a day, 57 percent (compared to non-smokers). The risk of suffering a stroke is as much as 65 percent.
In men, the risk of developing CHD – with one cigarette daily – is 48 percent higher than 45 percent (compared to non-smokers).
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A cigarette as toxic as 10 cigarettes
Furthermore, the researchers compared the health risks of low-smokers with the risks of high-smokers (20 cigarettes per day). The result: a single cigarette is more harmful than one twentieth of the pack of 20 cigarettes. More specifically: A single cigarette is about as harmful as 10 cigarettes – at least as far as CHD and strokes are concerned.
Thus “there is no ‘safe amount’ of cigarettes in relation to cardiovascular diseases. Smokers should stop instead of reducing the amount”, concludes Prof. Kenneth Johnson of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health the University of Ottawa (Canada).
However, this result is not a free ticket to smoke ten instead of one cigarette. As far as tumors and the lung disease COPD are concerned, the same still applies: the more you smoke, the higher the probability of these often incurable diseases.
E-cigarettes are also hardly a healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes, warns Prof. Johnson: “Even if e-cigarettes have fewer carcinogenic substances, they expose users to large amounts of particularly small particulate matter and other poisons, which significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases.”
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