Smoking doubles the chances of getting cancer of the bladder
Smoking is injurious to health, and the whole world knows it, and cause many diseases such as cancer of the lung, mouth, throat, tongue, emphysema, etc.. Now we add another important disease, says a new study, the smokers have a 30 percent higher risk of bladder cancer.
Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and eighth in women. Are diagnosed each year about 53 thousand cases and 14 of them are fatal.
There has been an increase in cases of bladder cancer in recent decades. Along with smokers, people who work with dyes, metals, paints, leather, textiles and organic chemicals, have a higher risk of bladder cancer, 20 to 25 percent.
But smoking is different, and those who smoke are twice as likely to get bladder cancer as non-smokers.
There are many symptoms of bladder cancer, but one of the most common is blood in the urine, without pain. It is important to go immediately to the doctor if it detects something similar. Another symptom is going to the bathroom too and feels pain when urinating.
"The bladder of a continuing smoker is exposed to carcinogenic substances, which over time can affect the lining of the bladder and lead to cancer," said Tomas Griebling, urologist and an author of the study. "If the threat of lung cancer is not enough to inspire smokers to stop, maybe lose bladder cancer because it could be."
Myths about smoking examined
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. Several studies have shown that smoking is responsible from various forms of cancer (as we saw yesterday), to other diseases, and things as simple as dry skin, wrinkles, dry hair, etc..
But that do not mind the smokers who, despite knowing all the facts, still, not just addiction, but because they do not want to quit. They do not realize that the addiction is spoken and not themselves. Directly and do not believe many of the drawbacks of smoking, so let's see some myths about smoking, what is truth and what is legend.
Many smokers say that his grandfather smoked all their lives and not die of lung cancer. It is true, only 10% of lifelong smokers get lung cancer. And the percentage is slightly contracted throat cancer, tongue, mouth, and others associated with smoking. So it's easier for them to break a condom is sick with cancer, for smokers.
But the issue is not there, but the simple fact that most smokers can escape the cancer does not mean that it remains less guilty about all these deaths that have been generated. The snuff or smoke is responsible for 30% of deaths from any type of cancer, and 87% of those who died of lung cancer were smokers. The risk of dying from lung cancer goes up 23 times if it is a smoker.
England in a study that lasted 50 years, and it showed that half of smokers die because of smoking, and snuff the deaths of those, half did so before the 50 years of age.
Without that one of the biggest risks of smoking, not lung cancer but cardiovascular disease, for which one can die of a heart attack or a cerebral hemorrhage.
As you can see depends on how you can show the statistics seem more or less harmful, but in the end is the same: Smoking is responsible for millions of deaths each year around the world. Yes, many people smoke and do not die from it ... but it is like playing Russian roulette, to see if one dies, or if you can keep smoking.
The polluter snuff and even when the cigarette was extinguished
A study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from Mississippi State University, United States, describes how to control smoke snuff remains even after the cigarette has been turned off, a phenomenon that is defined as "third-hand smoke.
"When you smoke, anywhere, toxic particles snuff the smoke get into your hair and clothes," says Jonathan Winickoff, director of the study. When you walk into contact with your baby, even if you're not smoking at the time, he comes into contact with toxins. And if you're breastfeeding, the toxins are transferred to baby through breast milk. "
Winickoff also argues that it is preferable that milk, milk that common, even though the mother is a smoker.
Within the snuff many particles that are toxic, 250 to be exact, including poisonous gases, chemicals, metals, etc... Many of them classified as group 1 carcinogens most dangerous or most likely to cause any type of cancer.
Children may be contaminated with these compounds not only because of secondhand smoke, or if someone is smoking nearby, but with the waste that has been what is called third-hand smoke. Thus the child who plays with the hair of a smoking mother, or that draws on the table where someone smoked, each playing something, even if their toys were where someone smoked before, this is harmful, and children more than in adults.
Why is it so hard to quit?
The majority of smokers have tried to quit once, and have returned. And certainly all know that smoking is difficult to leave the service of smoking. Because until you see a picture of someone smoking can be enough to stop those who want to leave their intentions, or if you already left, returning to resume the habit, says a new study.
CT of the brain of a smoker while smoking, and another 24 hours before he left show a marked increase in a particular type of brain activity when they have left the picture of someone smoking.
The brain region in question is the striatum, a region responsible for automatic responses, such as controlling the movements required to ride a bicycle or brushing your teeth.
This means that quitting would be outside the consent of the people, said Joseph McClernon, Duke University psychiatrist and director of the study.
"Only five percent of attempts to quit without help result in a successful abstinence," says McClernon. "Quitting smoking dramatically increases brain activity in response to see someone smoking, suggesting that quitting smoking sensitizes the brain to these stimuli to smoke." Which would explain why the majority of smokers who leave the service, then restart.
McClernon said that to help people leave the service of smoking not only has to resist the temptation to say that, but it will help them break this automatic response of your brain.
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