Besides,
radioactive metals in the cigarette’s smoke have been
found recently, as the Radioactive Polonium-210. Also it contains
Lead-210! Both highly toxic and radioactive metals, as well
as dangerous radioactive gases, as the harmful Radon. Among
others illnesses, it causes gastritis, ulcers, bronchial asthma,
constant inflammation
and infections of the respiratory ways; affects the production
of insulin, they stop the cilia movement in the bronchial mucous
membrane cells, what impedes that defense mechanism of the
respiratory system acts like it should;
The passive smoker absorbs numerous toxic substances as aromatic
hydrocarbons, nitrosamines, heavy metals, poisonous gases,
pesticides residues and radioactive elements, many of them
in large quantities that the ones found in the main current –the
smoker-.
The passive smoker can contract lung cancer as well as the
other types of cancer, cardiovascular illnesses, and bronchial
asthma, among others.
The smoking women can be affected with a greater risk of sterility,
conception delay, menopause advancement, osteoporosis increment,
and hip fracture risk; and in case of pregnancy she has the
risk of prior placenta and premature birth. The direct effects
that are produced in the mother as circulation inconveniences
and blood pressure increased, influence also incoming baby.
The effects produced in the babies of smoking mothers are: low weight when
they are born, enlarges the risk of sudden death, has a bigger risk of respiratory
illnesses, childlike asthma, growth delay, and they also can have long time
problems.
The toxic effects in passive smokers, which are those non
smoking people that are exposed to breathing the products of
combustion of tobacco in closed environments, are so many and
as harmful as in the smoker.
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