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Women who become pregnant should try to distance himself from cigarette smoke. Although not smoking, but inhaling cigarette smoke, will make it difficult to conceive. And if you’re pregnant, it will be easy to have a miscarriage in the first days of pregnancy.

Smoking is already known to adversely affect health. But as a second-hand smoke, which often occurs in women who have husbands smoked, other than a bad influence for his health, will also make it difficult to have a child. Read more…

The negative effects of cigarettes, is already beginning to feel at the time a new person began to smoke cigarettes. In a burning cigarette smoke because it sucked, imperfect burning tobacco that produces CO (carbon mono-oxide), which besides their own smoke, tar and nikotine (which occurs also from the burning tobacco) is inhaled into the airway.

CO, Tar, and Nicotine affects the nerve that causes:

• Nervous, shaky hands (tremor)
• Taste / decreased appetite
• Pregnant mothers who smoke may be the possibility of miscarriage abortion Read more…

People who smoke are more likely to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of mental illness (dementia) than those who have quit or never smoked. Smokers over the age of 55 years face the possibility of 50 percent for stricken with mental illness than people who do not smoke, says Dr. Monique Breteler of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and friends. Breteler and colleagues, writing in the journal Neurology, said they had traced nearly 7,000 people aged 55 years and more for a median of seven years. During that period, 706 of these people stricken with mental illness.

There is one type of known genes that increase the risk of mental illness called APOE4 or apolipoprotein E4. Smoking had no effect on the risk of Alzheimer’s for people who have that gene. But people who do not have these genes against 70 percent risk of Alzheimer’s if they smoked. Read more…