Menthol cigarettes add a substance called "menthol" to cigarettes, which gives the cigarettes a refreshing mint-like flavor. Let me introduce to you how menthol cigarettes harm your health. I hope it can help you.
How do menthol cigarettes harm health?
Menthol cigarettes harm smokers’ health mainly through the following ways.
1. The menthol component in menthol cigarettes will decompose under the high temperature generated by combustion to form a carcinogen? Benzopyrene. This increases the levels of carcinogens in tobacco smoke.
2. Menthol can relax airway smooth muscle and reduce its sensory stimulation effect, masking some respiratory symptoms, which will lead to deep breathing and unknowingly inhaling more harmful gases.
3. The metabolite of nicotine in the human body is cotinine, and the content of cotinine is positively related to the degree of nicotine dependence.
Menthol may increase the absorption of nicotine in the body and reduce the metabolism of cotinine. This makes people who smoke menthol cigarettes have higher levels of cotinine in their bodies and are more dependent on nicotine, which means they are more dependent on nicotine. Addicted.
4. Menthol can increase the probability of harmful components in tobacco smoke entering the bloodstream through the oral mucosa, and its complex effects on the central nervous system can affect the addictiveness of tobacco, thereby affecting smoking behavior. Will menthol cigarettes be less harmful?
Menthol cigarettes add a substance called "menthol" to cigarettes, which gives the cigarettes a refreshing mint-like flavor.
As we all know, smoking can cause lung cancer, so will smoking menthol cigarettes have little or no harm to health as advertised by tobacco companies? Let’s take a look at the following research first.
The Williams research team found:
People who smoke menthol cigarettes have higher levels of exhaled carbon monoxide, nicotine content in the body, and cotinine (nicotine metabolite) than those who smoke non-menthol cigarettes.
Ahijevych’s research team found:
Although menthol smokers took fewer puffs per cigarette, they smoked larger amounts per puff, smoked deeper, and exhaled more carbon monoxide. At the same time, contrary to expectations, the nicotine content in the body of people who smoked menthol cigarettes was higher than that of people who smoked non-menthol cigarettes.
Okuyemi and Royce’s research team found that:
Menthol smokers had lower quit rates than non-menthol smokers. Although people who smoke menthol cigarettes are more willing to quit smoking, their higher level of nicotine dependence makes it difficult for them to quit even if they are light smokers.
In addition, data suggest that smoking menthol cigarettes will also increase the prevalence of lung cancer and smoking-related diseases.
Through the above-mentioned studies, we can at least be sure that menthol cigarettes are no less harmful to the body than ordinary cigarettes! Women and teenagers become the biggest victims
Statisticians and businesses The characteristics of menthol cigarette smokers have been investigated, and the results are very interesting.
Women are the largest group of people who choose menthol cigarettes. Among adult smokers, women are more likely to choose menthol cigarettes than men. The reason may be that menthol cigarettes cause less irritation to the throat and trachea, and most women can tolerate the irritation of menthol cigarette smoke.
What is worrying is that teenagers have also become a large group of people who consume menthol cigarettes. Menthol cigarettes have become an important cigarette choice for most teenagers when they start learning to smoke.
Cigarettes are all harmful
In our country, the proportion of people smoking menthol cigarettes is small, but the huge population base reminds us that no matter how small the smoking rate is multiplied by the population of our country , and its quantity will not be too small. At the same time, women and teenagers are easily affected by menthol cigarette advertisements and should be paid more attention to.
In short, smoking menthol cigarettes will not reduce the harm of smoking, but may increase the harm caused by smoking.
No matter what fancy words or ingredients are added, just remember that cigarettes are harmful to your health.