What are the dangers of women's smoking?

We know that frequent smoking is very harmful to human health. This is because cigarettes produce harmful substances such as tar and nicotine during the burning process. If these substances are inhaled by the body for a long time, they will increase the risk of lung cancer. In modern society, there are many female smokers, and there are also ladies' cigarettes specifically for women. What you may not know is that ladies' cigarettes also have some potential hazards. Let's take a look.

The harm of women's cigarettes:

1. Menthol cigarettes for women

The truth: the health trap of coolness

Many cigarettes contain a certain amount of menthol, but the content is very low and not easy to detect. Many smokers prefer the strong mint taste, which is what we call "cool cigarettes". They think that it not only does not irritate the throat, but on the contrary makes the throat feel cool and comfortable. And many menthol cigarettes have a label that sounds safe: "mild" or "extra mild" cigarettes.

The term "mild" cigarettes can easily lead to misunderstanding, because smokers will mistakenly believe that since the cigarettes they smoke are "low tar" or "low nicotine", they are not harmful and they can safely smoke a few more.

In addition, the coolness of "mint cigarettes" often makes smokers feel very comfortable, and they inhale harmful smoke without caution.

Experiments have found that compared with other smokers, people who like to smoke "mint cigarettes" have a large amount of nicotine (a metabolite obtained after the human body breaks down nicotine, which has the biological activity of nicotine) in their saliva.

This explains why people who smoke "low tar" or "low nicotine" cigarettes suffer greater harm. The cool mint flavor can easily cause smokers to inadvertently keep the smoke in their mouths longer, which actually goes against the original design intention of "mild" cigarettes to "reduce the harm of nicotine."

2. Fruity, honey and chocolate flavors for women

The truth: a doubly toxic sugar-coated bullet

Many young women particularly like fruit-flavored or honey-flavored cigarettes. They do taste much lighter than ordinary cigarettes, and the light fruity aroma and sweet honey flavor are very appealing. This removes people's olfactory vigilance against tobacco and makes them think that this kind of women's cigarette is not harmful to the body.

3. The long-lasting filter smoke and low tar content of women's cigarettes

The truth : The threat still exists

The most carcinogenic substance in tobacco is benzopyrene, which is known as one of the three major carcinogens along with aflatoxin and nitrite. Lengthening the filter and reducing the tar content will not reduce the production of carcinogens. Moreover, the longer the filter, the more incomplete the combustion and the higher the carbon monoxide content.

Health reminder:

Smoking is harmful to women

1. Smoking will have an adverse effect on the respiratory tract of the next generation;

2. The risk of ectopic pregnancy in smoking women is 40% higher than that in non-smokers;

3. Smoking women are 2.7 times more likely to suffer from infertility than non-smoking women;

4. The chance of developing cervical cancer is 50% higher because smokers' uterus lacks Langerhans cells, which can enhance the function of the immune system when the human body is threatened by a virus or chemical product.

In addition, the carbon monoxide produced by smoking is inhaled into the body of pregnant women and combines with hemoglobin, seriously affecting the oxygen supply function and greatly affecting the fetal brain tissue, leading to miscarriage or fetal maldevelopment.

5. Women who smoke for more than 20 years have a 30% increased risk of breast cancer;

6. Smokers have many wrinkles around their eyes. This is because smokers often squint their eyes unconsciously, which becomes a habit over time and causes wrinkles around their eyes. In addition, the volatile substances in cigarettes are very irritating to the eyes, causing the eyes to open and close from time to time, leading to eyelid relaxation and fatigue, loss of elasticity, and the formation of eye bags.

7. Smokers have dark skin, haggard faces, and lack of energy. Smoking reduces blood circulation in the skin, causing smokers' upper or lower eyelids to radiate at right angles, and deep wrinkles on their cheeks and jaws. Some people also have rough skin under their cheeks, which is slightly gray, yellow, purple, or red, causing premature aging.