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Smokers who stop smoking shortly before surgery (recent quitters) seem to have worse surgical outcomes than early quitters. Therefore, concerns have been expressed about stopping smoking within 8 weeks of surgery. This has generated considerable uncertainty in the media and even in hospitals where smoking cessation advice is an important priority. Researchers therefore conducted a 9 [...]
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Smoking cigarettes whilst pregnant increases the likelihood of having a girl. Public health policy measures to reduce smoking have reduced cigarette exposure during pregnancy. Surpisingly, this has had an influence on the sex of newborns. A recent decline in the male:female (M:F) sex ratio seems to relate to pregnancy cigarette smoke exposure. The M:F sex [...]
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Exposure to cigarette smoke, even at the lowest levels of detection, still causes genetic damage. The same damage occurs in a heavy smoker as occurs in a nonsmoker exposed to occasional secondhand smoke. Threshold of Biologic Responses of the Small Airway Epithelium to Low Levels of Tobacco Smoke Strulovici-Barel Y, Omberg L, O’Mahony M, Gordon C, [...]
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They are worse off. We spoke in a previous post about the supra-additive effects of obesity on alcohol consumption. We found that obese people are at much higher risk to the damaging effects of alcohol because of their high fat mass. While alcohol may have some protective effect on stroke risk, any real effect is [...]
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