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how do you compare smoking cigarettes too hooca?

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Tobacco is Tobacco: Experts suggest that there is no difference between smoking tobacco through a hookah or through a cigarette.  Both are detrimental to your health.

Question 2

what are the proven advantages of smoking cigarettes ?

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See below : To the smoker none,  but lots of people get financial benefits from selling them.

Question 3

smoking cigarettes with vtach?

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Bad idea: Any time you have had ventricular tachycardia (vtach), you need to take care of your heart.  Speak with your cardiologist about what medication they want to give you to prevent this again but anything that stresses your heart, can lead to problems.  Smoking decreases oxygenation, caffeine causes too much stimulation so have a better lifestyle will be key.

Question 4

is smoking cigarettes equivalent to smoking weed?

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Yes and no: Both do harm to the body in different ways, nicotine is implicated with cancer , weed also has implicated with cancer in a recent study an increased incidence of testicular cancer was found . 
In regards to addiction they both cause increase of Dopamine which happens to be the chief chemical associated with pleasure, reward and re-inforcement of a behavior. I would suggest both not be used.

Question 5

how can i prevent smoking cigarettes?

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Be smart: Anyone who tries to get you to smoke isn't your friend. It's an addiction that will ruin your health and ultimately very likely kill you. Just don't start. If you are a smoker and need to stop, get your physician's help.

Question 6

can you get hives from smoking cigarettes?

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hives: Are not likely to be related to smoking.

Question 7

how can i stop an addiction smoking cigarettes?

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Multiple helps: You can see your primary care doctor for help with this -- and s/he will be glad for you to stop this health risk!  there are nicotine patches, gums, and medications to help you get through nicotine withdrawal.  Hypnosis can also help in many people.  Stopping cigarettes is challenging, but is definitely do-able.  http://www.cancer.org/healthy/stayawayfromtobacco/guidetoquittingsmoking/index.

Question 8

how does smoking cigarettes cause some cancers?

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Tobacco: When burned produces a number of arylhydrocarbons, and other carcinogens that directly attack human dna leading to mutations.  Some are repaired, others propagate over time,  mean time, nicotine addicts. The more exposure, probabilistic risk increases for cancer, cardiovascular and lung disease. Evidence is overwhelming indisputable..

Question 9

how do people get addicted to smoking cigarettes?

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Nicotine: Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs there is. For eg., when rats in a study were given the choice of choosing by lever Cocaine heroin and nicotine....They always gravitated to nicotine the most ..Even if the position of the levers and drugs were switched around. It also explains why it is so hard to quit smoking. Whatever you do, don't start smoking and get your friends and family to stop.

Question 10

can you tell me how smoking cigarettes cause cancer?

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Nobody truly knows: but the chronic irritation of certain aromatic hydrocarbons in the smoke ("tars") progressively irritates cells, increases the number that die, with new ones taking their place that over many years become more and more abnormal (metaplasia), finally becoming very abnormal (dysplasia) and ultimately becoming cancer (neoplasia). I do not know the exact cellular mechanisms, but some scientists do.

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