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Do You Know What Happens If You Smoke Just One Cigarette

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smo.jpgYou may be thinking that only long-term cigarette smoking leads to lung cancer and heart disease. But a recent study proved that smoking just one cigarette can also be disastrous and bad for your health. Read on …

  • Smoking just one cigarette lowers the blood levels of Vitamin C in your body.
  • It also lowers the levels of other important antioxidants in your body for sometime.
  • It stops blood vessel walls from releasing nitric oxide, a substance that helps them relax and open.
  • These changes combine to pinch the coronary arteries. The narrowed blood vessels make it difficult to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the hard working heart muscle.
  • And yes, it is bad for your memory. It has been found that men who smoke heavily start losing their memory during their 40s and 50s, but men who don’t smoke have better memories.

The message is right and clear folks - even a single cigarette can stress the heart. So quit smoking !!!
Also read: Top 15 Reasons To Quit Smoking Now and Smokers Must Quit, Not Just Cut Back .

Written by Prarthna

December 28th, 2006 at 2:59 am

11 Responses to 'Do You Know What Happens If You Smoke Just One Cigarette'

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  1. Smoking 1 cigarette causes cancer…? You are an idiot!

    Antonine Scarpini

    28 Dec 06 at 12:36 pm

  2. Hey Antonine, we never said that smoking one cigarette causes cancer, we just said it stresses your heart. But if you contuinue to stress your heart for a long time, then that may be bad for your health in the long run.

    Jasmine

    28 Dec 06 at 11:55 pm

  3. you must think that its easy to stop smoking all these commercials yal make about how to quit is bull s##t you can not jus quit in seven days the best way to stop smoking is for farmers to stop growing tobacco

    faybo

    1 Nov 07 at 7:59 am

  4. my mum smokes and i no every time she does smoke i feel so sad coz i no wat it is doin to her and i no i will nver do it and when i think of her gettin heart problems or somethin i feel really sad and i am wantin to make my mum stop smokin but she wont listen to me but i no she is tiryin and i am fellin a bit beter about it and if she doesent soon maby soemthin will happen but i hope not and i ask god to help me and her and meny other people in the world that need to stop smokin i ask this in jesus name amen…………….

    nicole

    25 Jan 08 at 4:44 pm

  5. i dad drink it and i fell that something is going to happen to him i am scared

    sble

    19 Mar 08 at 9:56 am

  6. I AM TALLING PEOPLE TO NOT TO SMOKE IT IS BED FOR YOU if you do you will die

    melek

    19 Mar 08 at 9:59 am

  7. my mum smokes and i no every time she does smoke i feel so sad coz i no wat it is doin to her and i no i will nver do it and when i think of her gettin heart problems or somethin i feel really sad and i am wantin to make my mum stop smokin but she wont listen to me but i no she is tiryin and i am fellin a bit beter about it and if she doesent soon maby soemthin will happen but i hope not and i ask god to help me and her and meny other people in the world that need to stop smoking is a bad thing do not drink plz?………..

    nicole

    19 Mar 08 at 10:02 am

  8. some peple smok in our family and they are still smokimg if they get bad they will die cause they were soking

    nicole

    19 Mar 08 at 10:04 am

  9. hey every1 out thea
    pliz stop smkin
    its all bad!!!
    u might nt even live up 2 your 50’s or 60’s.

    PLIZ STOP SMOKING
    N THATS AN ORDER!!!

    dnt take it seriasly

    suzzy

    27 May 08 at 4:18 am

  10. what does a cigarete do to your respiratory system

    nicole

    29 May 08 at 4:18 pm

  11. Umm, i used to smoke and it was easy for me to stop so don’t say it’s way hard because it isn’t for some people. Smoking is very bad. DON’T DO IT! because my mum has lung cancer and she is at risk. so just don’t do it aye.

    Kelsy

    14 Aug 08 at 9:29 pm

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