Long-Term Smoking and Health: Is It Possible to Stay Healthy?

Do you know how many smokers there are in our country now? 350 million people!
More than 60% of the boys over 15 years old in China have the bad habit of smoking for a long time!
And even if the medical community found that smoking is harmful to health, more and more popular science about tobacco harm in our country, but many smokers still do not have the idea of quitting smoking, the number of smokers is increasing every year. And because nicotine in cigarettes is addictive, the more with the increase of smoking amount and smoking age, the more difficult it is to get rid of tobacco.
We should know that the high incidence of lung cancer in China is based on the large number of smokers. Smoking is the most risk factor for lung cancer. The more people smoke and the younger they are exposed to tobacco, the more likely they are to develop lung cancer later!
However, many smokers scoff at this kind of speech, thinking that it is just exaggerating the harm of tobacco. And some people will take the people around them as an example. Uncle so and so has been smoking for decades, but they don’t live well and have nothing to do. Don’t those who don’t smoke or drink still get cancer and die young?
Yes, such examples do exist in real life, but have you ever thought about why people who smoke don’t get cancer?
First of all, we need to make it clear that cigarettes are a class of carcinogens confirmed by the International Cancer Research Institute under who. They are carcinogenic to human beings. The carcinogens they contain include nicotine, benzopyrene, nitrosamine, etc. these carcinogens have strong carcinogenic activity and can cause DNA damage to bronchial epithelial cells!
However, the relationship between carcinogens and cancer is not an absolute equation. Everyone’s age, genes, amount and time of tobacco exposure, physical fitness and immune function are different, so the cancer rate is naturally different. The relationship between any carcinogen and cancer is just the possibility of cancer;
And there are nearly 350 million smokers in China. This huge group of smokers naturally has the situation of long life of old smokers. And smoking can also prolong life, which is easy to be impressive and better remembered. However, when people pay too much attention to this longevity case, they ignore the number of people who smoke to cause cancer.
Therefore, the case of smokers’ longevity is not enough to refute the view that smoking is harmful to health. On the contrary, various statistics and studies have given a most intuitive conclusion: smoking increases the risk of cancer!
On the other hand, related studies have shown that in people who smoke and live long, there are usually single nucleotide cell groups in their genes that are different from others. These single nucleotide polymorphisms can increase the ability of human cells to repair damage.
Therefore, although these people smoke, they protect their own health to a certain extent because their cells are stronger than those of ordinary people. On the contrary, if you have a family history of lung cancer and a genetic tumor susceptibility gene in your body, you are very sensitive to carcinogens in cigarettes.
Therefore, in the case of the same amount of smoking, smoking age, the cancer rate of this group of people is higher than others!
Write in the end: smoking cancer is like walking on the road, all kinds of people, although not everyone will have a car accident, but as long as you are still on the road, there is the possibility of a car accident.
And if you don’t have strong genes, and you don’t have enough luck, then the disaster may be your turn. Therefore, don’t gamble on your health and future. It may be the right way to quit smoking now.