A consultant family medicine and allergies, Dr. Khaled Obaid Bawakd, confirmed to Al -Madinah that the risk of smoking is many and cannot be limited to infection with various types of cancer and that awareness of its risks is everyone’s responsibility and start from the family before society, as cigarette smoke contains more than (7,000) chemicals, including at least (69) substances that cause cancer, smoking does not affect only smokers, but rather a risk Those around them must be passed by negative smoking. On the occasion of the International Smoking Day, which the world celebrated yesterday, May 31, with the aim of devoting awareness of its dangers, and encouraging individuals to quit it, the cigarette contains serious substances that cause great damage to all parts of the body, including nicotine, which is a semi -smell -smelling compound, extracted from the tobacco plant, which is a very strong substance, affects the brain, turns into rapid addiction, A toxic chemical is formed when the nicotine cools, condenses, and the tar combined with the lung, causing cancer, and also smoke contains carbon monoxide that starts as a result of burning tobacco, and the first carbon monoxide enter when it is inhaled into the bloodstream and interferes with the work of the heart and blood vessels, and it carries about 15% of the blood of the smoker the first carbon monoxide instead of oxygen Others such as arsenic, ammonia, anassones, toloin, methyl Amin, methanol and polonium.
Dr. Boukad continued: Smoking problems do not stop to the extent of the smoker, but rather include all those around him, which is known as passive smoking, as negative smoking results when inhaling the steam that a smoker sends during smoking and inhaling the emerging fumes from burning tobacco, and the risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease increases in people who are subjected to passive smoking constantly, so it should be healthy and especially children Far from smokers to avoid the damage caused.
Dr. Boukid advised all smokers to quit smoking immediately to avoid its risks that may occur and suddenly and without warning, and can be used as the smoking quit clinics allocated by the Ministry of Health that pursues scientific and advanced methods in treating smokers, with confirmation that the smoker and immediately stopping smoking will immediately touch the big difference in his health and breathing.
