Re:We ignored evidence linking cigarettes to cancer – Let's ...
by code_duck on Saturday February 16, 2019 @01:08PM
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People don’t smoke or vape coffee. When you ingest a drug orally, it typically takes many minutes or even hours to take effect, versus minutes or seconds for smoking. This principle is well known in studying things like cocaine abuse. Slower onset is less damaging to your body systems and also less likely to create addiction.
my understanding of the risks of heart disease and stroke affiliated with smoking is that they’re primarily due to the fact that regular smokers are living their lives in a permanent state of mild carbon monoxide poisoning. CO has a time course on the order of about 10 hours, so if you have more than two smoke breaks a day, your hemoglobin supply is semi-permanently compromised ...