Menthol cigarettes or conventional. What is more harmful?
Tens of millions of smokers around the world confirm that they like flavor menthol cigarettes because it reduces the discomfort of nicotine. But how does menthol on human health? As often happens in medicine, the menthol cigarettes have their pros and cons.
Scientists have long worried that menthol, menthol contained in cigarettes increases the speed of chemical additives in the mouth and throat, and accelerate their penetration into the blood stream.Menthol increases the transmittance of these membranes to all types of water-soluble chemicals.
Taste of menthol cigarettes puff more pleasant to the taste, so fans of mentholated brands longer keep tobacco smoke during the puff. Menthol, in turn, after the burning of toxic side effects benzopirin.
The positive side is that, despite the additional risk factors can not be said that menthol cigarettes cause health smoker more damage than usual. If you smoke menthol cigarettes, it does not mean that you will increase the risk of cancer, heart disease or emphysema.
National Heart, Lung, and blood diseases carried out a project CARDIA, on the risk of developing cancer in young people. This project involved people who are over 15 years of smoking menthol and regular cigarettes. The number of respondents included both African Americans and Americans of European descent.
Studies have found that menthol cigarettes, smokers likely to develop emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is less than the likelihood of developing these diseases as smokers of regular cigarettes. The same results were also in the case of cancer and coronary artery disease. The results were skewed by the fact that participants in the experiment, recruited in 1985, at the time was from 18 to 30 years old - the age too young to experience all the disadvantages and side effects of prolonged smoking. But be that as it may, even in this study, 14% of smokers has been coronary artery disease at the age of 33-45 years.
The worst news is that among people who smoke regular cigarettes for 15 years, 46% were able to quit smoking, whereas among people who smoked menthol cigarettes, the rate was 31%. And the reason was not that menthol is somehow complicated the process. In fact, it turned out that people who smoke menthol cigarettes, not even trying to quit smoking.
Scientists have long worried that menthol, menthol contained in cigarettes increases the speed of chemical additives in the mouth and throat, and accelerate their penetration into the blood stream.Menthol increases the transmittance of these membranes to all types of water-soluble chemicals.
Taste of menthol cigarettes puff more pleasant to the taste, so fans of mentholated brands longer keep tobacco smoke during the puff. Menthol, in turn, after the burning of toxic side effects benzopirin.
The positive side is that, despite the additional risk factors can not be said that menthol cigarettes cause health smoker more damage than usual. If you smoke menthol cigarettes, it does not mean that you will increase the risk of cancer, heart disease or emphysema.
National Heart, Lung, and blood diseases carried out a project CARDIA, on the risk of developing cancer in young people. This project involved people who are over 15 years of smoking menthol and regular cigarettes. The number of respondents included both African Americans and Americans of European descent.
Studies have found that menthol cigarettes, smokers likely to develop emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is less than the likelihood of developing these diseases as smokers of regular cigarettes. The same results were also in the case of cancer and coronary artery disease. The results were skewed by the fact that participants in the experiment, recruited in 1985, at the time was from 18 to 30 years old - the age too young to experience all the disadvantages and side effects of prolonged smoking. But be that as it may, even in this study, 14% of smokers has been coronary artery disease at the age of 33-45 years.
The worst news is that among people who smoke regular cigarettes for 15 years, 46% were able to quit smoking, whereas among people who smoked menthol cigarettes, the rate was 31%. And the reason was not that menthol is somehow complicated the process. In fact, it turned out that people who smoke menthol cigarettes, not even trying to quit smoking.