Which of the women of the Russian Federation smokes a pipe. Smoking stars of Hollywood and Russia
We all have petty sins that we are ashamed of. Someone can not resist a piece of delicious cake, the other secretly bites his nails. And that's completely normal! Remember that perfect people do not exist. But if there is nothing so bad in these small habits, then smoking can already seriously affect your health. We will tell you which of the Russian celebrities cannot give up their addiction in any way.
Irina Apeksimova
“I smoke a lot - from a pack to two, depending on the work schedule. Cigarettes help me cope with stress and come to my senses. Yes, I fully understand and feel the harm they do to me. But they have already become a part of my life. In general, I never pretended to be a good girl and I didn’t think that I would ever leave them. ”
Yana Churikova
The actress smokes not just cigarettes, but real Cuban cigars!
Elena Yakovleva
“There used to be a pack, or even two. She always smoked strong cigarettes. After suffering an ulcer, I try to limit myself: I smoke only "female" cigarettes and in smaller quantities. I constantly reassure myself, tell myself that I began to feel much better by switching to light “sticks”. But deep down I know that I'm lying to myself. And I hope that someday I will find the strength to cope with this “infection”, but so far I can’t imagine my life without them.”
Chulpan Khamatova
“I understand what kind of example I set for my daughters, but this habit is firmly planted in my life. It seems to me that after another break for “smoking”, my head starts to work better. Perhaps someday I will be able to get rid of this harmful addiction, ”says the actress.
Alena Babenko
“I open the press and see -“ Alena Babenko was again caught with a cigarette. And I actually haven't smoked in a month! And six months later I see a headline of a different kind: "Alena Babenko quit smoking." I look at the table, and there I have a pack of cigarettes. So it goes. But I still need to quit smoking, ”says the actress.
Volochkova smokes like a baba, and Pugacheva - like a temptress
Despite all the calls for a healthy lifestyle, domestic celebrities are in no hurry to part with cigarettes. For some, a bad habit has long become a physical need: the body, exhausted by stress and nocturnal lifestyle, constantly requires its share of nicotine. For others, smoking is more of a social ritual required for communication. You approach a friend, smoke with him, exchange a couple of phrases - and, you see, a joint project has already been drawn. Psychologists say: by the way a person holds a cigarette, smokes, blows smoke and communicates while smoking, you can learn a lot of interesting things about him.
There are plenty of smokers among the stars: film actors and singers smoke (although it would seem they should take care of their voice), and politicians ... Those who smoke constantly and with pleasure are the majority, and the lion's share of star smokers periodically vows to themselves, which is necessary quit. But, as a rule, it does not.
- If I had a chance to start all over again and change something in my life, I would get rid of bad habits, - TV presenter Valdis Pelsh admits, - If I could start all over again, I would never smoke. Even try!
Those who are trying to quit and are moving steadily towards the intended goal are few. Behind the scenes of social events, we come across more and more stars tarring electronic cigarettes, and one of them is Alexei Chumakov. According to the singer, you still want to smoke with these plastic pipes wildly, but he intends to hold out until the end and quit. But Grigory Leps chose a different path. The artist cannot yet completely give up tobacco, but he switched to thin women's cigarettes: it seems to him that they are lighter and less harmful. Although doctors warn that the nicotine content in them is not less, plus manufacturers add food flavorings to the so-called "ladies'" cigarettes. These flavors are approved for consumption, but this does not mean that they can be inhaled. No one has even conducted clinical trials to find out how such substances act on the body when inhaled.
In general, celebrities prefer cigarettes, although some sybarites do not deny themselves the pleasure of smoking a cigar or two. The most passionate star fan of rolled tobacco leaves is Igor Matvienko: at parties, the producer does not part with a cigar. Less aesthetically pleasing celebrities like to indulge in a hookah - among them are Anastasia Volochkova and Vyacheslav Manucharov.
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Smoke up - in front of you is the leader
According to psychologists, the first strokes of the psychological portrait of a smoker can be drawn up by the way he releases smoke. Let's take, for example, Volochkova with her favorite hookah: Nastya so famously, like a steam locomotive, lets out a jet upwards, which is just a pleasure! A powerful jet of smoke directed upwards with the head thrown back indicates that the smoker is a clear leader, a person who is used to dominating always and everywhere, under any circumstances. This is a person with a strong character, not accustomed to failure under any circumstances. Most likely, this is an inveterate egoist, accustomed to perceiving all the events taking place through the prism of his big "I".
Such people usually have problems with a sense of humor - they simply do not understand it, especially subtle or veiled humor. Although, in relation to Anastasia, this point can be discarded: it is enough just to recall how the ballerina announced a “fotojab” contest for her famous “naked” pictures from the Maldives and even awarded the winner. But the fact that Nastya is used to sweeping away all obstacles in her path and defeating rivals should not be forgotten ...
If the smoke of the smoker goes down, it means that now he is suppressed by something. When such a manner becomes common, this is a signal: most likely, this person belongs to the category of people who are unsociable and indecisive. He feels comfortable only in the company of one person - himself.
"Ivanushka" Grigoriev-Appolonov smokes like a tough man, and Lisovets - like a delicate nature
The farther the lit cigarette is located from the palm of your hand, the more delicate and sensitive the person holding it is, the more all the signs of a creative nature guided by feelings and emotions are inherent in him, than by reason and logic. Such a person perceives everyone around him, rather, externally, focusing on the very first impression. And since the intuition of such people is very well developed, the first impression is rarely deceptive. Look at Vlad Lisovets: a cigarette at the very tips of his fingers, a pensive look - we have a subtle creative personality before us.
Those who hold a cigarette approximately in the middle of their fingers, at the level of the second phalanx, are nature, standing firmly on their feet, adhering to the arguments of reason and able to benefit.
Brutal guys in films often smoke, holding a cigarette between their index and thumb, as if hiding it in their palms from the wind. But in life, many have adopted this gesture - this is how they pitch, for example, Valdis Pelsh and "Ivanushka" Andrey Grigoriev-Appolonov. According to psychologists, such a smoker knows well what he wants from this life, and knows how to protect his interests. True, this defense is not like the pressure of a leader sweeping away everything in its path, a person who is used to commanding others. It is rather about stubbornness and obstinacy, when a person with enviable persistence, day by day, in small steps, is moving towards his cherished goal.
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A person who holds a cigarette between his middle and index fingers and brings his entire palm to his mouth with each puff is most likely an introvert. And not just an introvert, but a person who is afraid of any strong feelings and emotions. He can demonstrate coldness, detachment and even cynicism with all his behavior as much as he likes, but a characteristic gesture when smoking will betray him with his head. Such a person prefers to keep everyone at a distance, not particularly getting close to anyone - not because he is selfish, but because he is simply afraid of getting burned. For some reason, of all the male stars, this manner of smoking is most characteristic of Marat Basharov. What would that mean?
Most of the fair sex, when smoking, hold the cigarette high, pointing it up - like Irina Khakamada, while men prefer to lower their hand below chest level. For ladies, such a gesture is an involuntary manner of demonstrating beautiful hands and a head thrown back invitingly.
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A woman who slowly shakes off the ashes with her index finger and at the same time looks at her hand is likely to be a real temptress. Well, if a lady, as it were, “wipes” a cigarette on an ashtray, you are faced with a strong personality - beware, she always achieves what she wants! But the ladies who smoke cigars (for example, TV presenter Yana Churikova never refuses them) are eccentric people who like to try everything new and are not afraid to insist on their own, even if others do not like it.
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While there is a heated debate in the Azerbaijani parliament about a ban on smoking in public places, we present to Trend Life readers an article about famous smokers of the past and present.
They are famous. Rich. Beautiful. One of them is a movie star with millions of fees, and someone came up with a theory of the universe. But they all have one thing in common: they are famous smokers. People who cannot live without tobacco. Nothing human is alien to them.
Once Barack Obama took over the presidency of the United States, immediately promised that he would not violate the existing smoking ban in the White House. "There are times when I break down," Obama said in an interview when asked if he broke up with a bad habit. "I have done a tremendous job under the circumstances, making myself healthier" Earlier, Obama said that he smokes cigarettes from time to time, but noted that he would like to devote more time to a healthy lifestyle. Moreover, this summer he signed an anti-tobacco law. The new law gives the US government unprecedented control over the tobacco industry. The law allows authorities to control the level of nicotine content in tobacco products, exclude flavorings and require strict warnings about the dangers of smoking to be placed on packs.
John Kennedy- the most famous American president. The most beautiful women in the world fell in love with him. And he liked to smoke.
Cuba has introduced strict measures against smoking in public places. On an island where almost half of the population smokes and where the famous cigars are made, it is forbidden to sell tobacco products near schools and smoke in most workplaces ... New measures initiated in 2005 by the Cuban leader Fidel Castro who quit smoking cigars himself.
Cigars and coins
Edward VII- King of Great Britain, was crowned in 1901. Having ascended the throne, he uttered his famous phrase, which was included in all books about cigars without exception - "Gentlemen, you can smoke!" . The fact is that the rules of etiquette of that time forbade smoking in public, non-smoking places. In addition, it was considered bad manners to smoke cigars in front of women. King Edward was a heavy smoker and a great cigar lover. Therefore, it is not surprising that he abolished the old-fashioned rules and allowed his subjects to smoke cigars anywhere and anytime. In the 30s of the XX century, the name of the famous British king in the cigar world was immortalized in the name of cigars - the American brand King Edward exists to this day.
Rare Cuban coin with a portrait of Che Guevara
The legendary revolutionary, the main romantic hero of the twentieth century, Ernesto Che Guevara was a heavy smoker. He tried his first cigar after another fight and found that tobacco smoke relieved asthma attacks, which he had suffered since childhood. Since then, the cigar and Che Guevara have become inseparable. In one of his letters, he wrote: “I am writing these lines to you from the thickets of the Cuban thorn. I am alive and thirsty for blood. It looks like I really became a soldier. with a gun on my shoulder and a cigar in my mouth. This is my new addiction." In each new partisan camp, Che organized a "small tobacco factory" where cigars were rolled for him and his comrades in arms.
Silver half dollar Kennedy
John F. Kennedy - American president, dandy and favorite of women, of course, adored cigars. And preference invariably gave Cuban. Historical paradox: in 1962, President Kennedy, signing the decree imposing an economic embargo on Cuba, secretly asked his secretary Pierre Salinger to order a thousand harbors. H. Upmann panatellas were Kennedy's favorite cigars, and by banning the import of Cuban cigars into the United States, he wanted to provide himself with them for almost the rest of his life. Most likely he succeeded - Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. And the embargo, by the way, has not yet been lifted.
English crown in memory of Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill- British Prime Minister. It is estimated that he smoked over 250,000 cigars in his lifetime. Lighting the first cigar of the day after breakfast, over a cup of coffee, Churchill left the last one in the ashtray, turning off the light in the bedroom. He could smoke up to 20 cigars a day - and despite the fact that his favorite formats were huge double corona and julieta. The name of Winston Churchill gave the name to the Romeo y Julieta Churchill cigars (before the renaming they were called Romeo y Julieta A, and it was them that the British Prime Minister loved the most) and the whole cigar format (Churchill's favorite size - 178 × 18.65 mm is now called julieta only in Cuba , in the rest of the world it is called churchill).
American Feuilletonist of the Year Medal with Twain's portrait
Mark Twain- a brilliant American writer and a big fan of cigars. He has dozens of popular expressions about cigars to his credit. "If I can't smoke cigars in heaven, then I don't need heaven." "Cigar overindulgence is when you smoke two cigars at the same time." "I trained myself never to smoke cigars in my sleep and never to stop smoking when awake." While working on the book "Light", Twain swore off smoking. As a result, a couple of chapters took almost a whole month. But as soon as cigars were returned to everyday life, the work began to boil. It is noteworthy that even in the years of prosperity and wealth, when Twain could afford expensive havanas, Twain smoked only the cheapest American cigars. His favorite brand was called "twenty-five cents a box."
Count Leopold de Rothschild, a famous London financier, was a big fan of good wine and cigars. However, he was so busy that he almost never managed to smoke a whole cigar. In order not to be upset every time, leaving a cigar half-smoked, Rothschild ordered a special format from the Cuban factory Hoyo de Monterrey - short and thick. These cigars were strong, rich in taste, but did not require much time - ideal for a busy person. Until the beginning of the 20th century, cigars of this format were called rothschild, and later the name robusto was assigned to them.
Commemorative Austrian coin for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Freud
Sigmund Freud- the father of psychoanalysis, openly admitted his dependence on cigars and, moreover, almost attributed to them all his scientific achievements. Indeed, without cigars, Freud lost his ability to work, became restless and felt constant fatigue. He smoked almost constantly. Freud argued that the cause of smoking lies in the psychological trauma received in infancy. He argued that by smoking a person satisfies the sucking reflex and compensates for the absence of the mother's breast. Moreover, Freud saw the cigar as a phallic symbol. Meanwhile, few people know that the same Freud said: "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And nothing but a cigar." (source: www.tabak.ru)
"You start smoking to prove that you are a man. Then you try to quit smoking to prove that you are a man" Georges Simenon
Such a bright personality in the art world as an eccentric Vincent Van Gogh was a pipe lover. Being in a fit of depression and having abused absinthe, he cut off his own ear with a razor and ... immediately lit up.
Which of the famous figures did not speak about his love for the pipe. In domestic open spaces, it is primarily associated with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Known for his almost ascetic lifestyle, which he instilled in the whole family, he could not deny himself good tobacco and a quality pipe. During his reign, many pipes were sent to him, and all of them were already well-smoked, made of expensive materials.
Smokers know Winston Churchill a person, because a variety and type of cigars are named after him. Everyone else knows him as a great politician. He was also a Nobel laureate in literature.
In almost all images of the Nobel laureate, the great physicist Albert Einstein can be seen pensive, with a pipe in his hand. This famous physicist Robert Oppenheimer there was a habit worse than smoking - he created atomic bombs. "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Said Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhavagad Gita. This happened on the day of the first atomic bomb explosion on Japan on July 16, 1945.
Armandine Aurora Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, known as George Sand She also liked to smoke a pipe. She was the most successful writer of her century. If we consider that she lived in the nineteenth century, then smoking a pipe became her outrageous towards society, as well as part of her works. The fashion for pipe smoking among women had passed by the middle of the eighteenth century, and later, a woman engaged in such a pastime automatically placed herself on a par with men.
"Cleopatra" Elizabeth Taylor smoked a hookah. And even after receiving the "Oscar", the first thing she lit a cigarette. It seems that she is absolutely happy at this moment. French women know a lot about real elegance. BUT Catherine Deneuve I also knew in good cigarettes.
They say that Marilyn Monroe used drugs stronger than nicotine. Perhaps they killed her.
The legendary American actor also appears on stage and off stage with a pipe Kevin Costner. Millions of women fell in love with him when they saw Maximus as a gladiator. Thousands of film critics loved him for his role as a mad and brilliant scientist in A Beautiful Mind. Russell Crowe brutal and talented. True, he is prone to bad habits. Including smoking. Just like the famous "Terminator" Arnold Schwarzenegger who does not part with a cigar . Famous cigar smokers include an opera star Luciano Povarotti, Hollywood stars Brooke Shields, Demi Moore, John Travolta and Clint Eastwood.
Roby Williams- of course, this is the most talented singer of our time. Handsome and crazy, he amazes us with new hits year after year. smokes. Smokes.
The list of legendary smokers also includes: author of detective stories Georges Simenon, philosopher of existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre, general Douglas MacArthur, who participated in the First and Second World Wars on the part of the United States, French writer Guillaume Apollinaire, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramics artist Pablo Picasso, American writer John R.R. Tolkien. With a pipe, such fictional characters as the cartoon sailor Popeye, Philip Mortimer Jacobs, smoking a long pipe and Gandalf in Tolkien are depicted. However, the most famous smoking heroes are still Sherlock Holmes from the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Lieutenant Maigret about which Georges Simenon wrote 84 books.
British researchers have found that smokers destroy not only the lungs, but also the brain. In people who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease, tobacco use, together with an unhealthy diet and inactive lifestyle, leads to brain dysfunction.
Scientists: smoking destroys the brain
In a study on the effects of tobacco on general mental abilities, 8,800 people over 50 took part, of which more than half were women. During 2004-2012, memory tests were carried out three times among all the subjects: in 1 minute they were asked to memorize the maximum number of new words, as well as to name as many different animals as possible.
Based on results published in Age and Aging, smoking markedly reduced these values on all 3 tests at 4-year intervals. Scientists, however, did not limit the risk factors only to smoking - the subjects also owed memory impairment due to high blood pressure, as well as being overweight.
Dr Alex Dregan, a leading expert and specialist from King's College London, says: “Cognitive decline is becoming more common among older citizens. We have been able to identify a number of risk factors that cause a sharp decline in mental abilities.”
So, a study by British scientists has identified a direct link between a significant violation of brain function, as well as an unhealthy lifestyle. Smoking, even passive smoking, has been named among the most dangerous causes of senile dementia.
It has been argued earlier by researchers that smoking is the cause of diseases such as multiple sclerosis. The carcinogen in tobacco can cause white cells in people's blood to attack healthy cells in the central nervous system, leading to a so-called neuroinflammation that often causes mental disorders. The air even in smoky rooms contains up to 26 nanograms of this toxic substance.
Star smoke break, or celebrities with a cigarette
Smoking can save you from plague, toothache, migraine and even helps with pregnancy. This is exactly what Catherine II thought when, on the sly from her own crowned husband, she became addicted to tobacco. However, this was also the opinion of Peter the Great, who in a few years made St. Petersburg the most smoking city in the country. Since that time, the illusions about the benefits of smoking have been dispelled like tobacco smoke. By the way, the northern capital is still considered a paradise for cigarette manufacturers. According to statistics, every 2nd man and every 3rd woman poison themselves with tobacco.
Alexander the First was also a heavy smoker. For him, meter long mouthpieces were specially made, which stood on the floor, joining the pipe. Alexander took a deep puff, after which he thus rested after state affairs.
TOP great smokers
Pablo Picasso. Picasso devoted most of his paintings to smokers. And this is no coincidence, since Picasso himself smoked a pipe, and sometimes cigars. Moreover, people who knew Picasso closely assure that the artist would hardly have retained his colossal creative potential until the age of ninety-one without tobacco and without sex.
Ernest Hemingway. One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century is Ernest Miller Hemingway. His phrase "... there is nothing in the world stronger and better than playing with danger" characterizes him very accurately and voluminously than any data from his biography.
The great Hemingway liked to repeat that “there are few things in life that make our existence wonderful. And first of all, these include a Cuban cigar and dry red wine.”
Alexander Abdulov. The popular artist continued to smoke even in an Israeli clinic, where, as expected, he would have to undergo an operation against lung cancer. He already knew that the time for the operation was over.
Anna Samokhina died of stomach cancer. And people who knew their favorite actress claimed that she could not imagine her life of cigarettes and coffee.
Oleg Efremov is one of the great actors of the Russian Federation and theater directors, a heavy smoker.
In the last months of his life, Efremov moved with difficulty, sat at rehearsals, connected to a device that ventilated his lungs. There was a cigarette in his hand. Oleg Efremov died of lung cancer.
Evgeny Evstigneev had experienced significant heart problems in recent years. His relatives persuaded him to undergo an operation in London. Doctors, having examined E. Evstigneev, reported: “It is customary for us to warn the patient about the likely consequences of the operation. Here is your heart, in which there are four vessels. 3 of them are completely clogged, and the 4th is 90 percent, and your heart functions only because there is 10 percent of the hole in 1 vessel ... "
The popular actor has been smoking for years; his health was certainly ruined by cigarettes.
Anatoly Solonitsyn- Tarkovsky's favorite actor. Another celebrity who died from smoking. Smoked 2 packs of cigarettes per day; died of lung cancer. Unfortunately, the operation did not help.
Heavy smokers were also the brilliant composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the incredibly popular artist Nikolai Rybnikov, the greatest Russian poet and writer of the twentieth century Boris Pasternak and the remarkable Russian lyricist Mikhail Svetlov, the unique master, actor, director, versatile person Rolan Bykov and the popular director Georgy Tovstonogov, a well-known director Andrei Tarkovsky and public favorite Andrei Mironov, legendary athlete, Olympic champion Lev Yashin and famous hockey player, world's best defender Ivan Tregubov. Unfortunately, the list of famous heavy smokers can be continued for a very long time.
Scientists explain how smoking fights Parkinson's disease
Cigarettes help schizophrenics control their symptoms.
Israeli researchers have taken another step towards the discovery of a treatment for Parkinson's disease. The fact is that they have discovered a genetic mechanism that is associated with smoking and which inhibits the development of this degenerative disease, reports the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
This study was conducted by a team of Israeli scientists from the Hadassah University Hospital, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Beilinson Clinic, Tel Aviv University, and the Italian Research Institute. They studied data from 677 patients with Parkinson's disease, of whom 438 had never smoked in their lives, and 239 had done so at the present time or in the past.
As a result, scientists have established a relationship between nicotine addiction, as well as a protective mechanism that prevents the development of the disease.
The discovery helped researchers understand how nicotine prevents the breakdown of dopamine in the brain, which scientists believe is linked to the disease.
Do you smoke? However, it doesn't matter. You are still on one or the other side of the barricades. For this world has long been torn apart by a war in which two armies are fighting - the Tobacco Leaf and Clean Air.
Is smoking dangerous for health?
The funny thing is that so far no one has been able to either 100% confirm that smoking is dangerous, or refute this idea. Neither scientifically nor statistically.
It is reliably known that in heavy smokers the working volume of the lungs decreases, during exercise the pulse increases more strongly, and shortness of breath appears faster than in non-smokers. For sure, smokers have an increased metabolism, so they gain weight worse and lose it faster. It is not yet possible to judge how life-threatening these changes are. Because as soon as the case begins to concern nicotine addiction, both scientists and statisticians give up. Yes, up to 70% of those dying from lung cancer are smokers or quitters. But if we take the main age-socio-sex section of such dead, it turns out that 70% of them are former or current smokers anyway.
Yes, shortness of breath when climbing to the fifth floor is not good. But on the other hand, smokers are 15% faster at solving IQ tests. And they are twice as likely to die from diabetes.
Yes, pregnant women who smoke are more likely to be born with a lack of weight. But in smokers, dangerous pre-eclampsia is 50% less common, and the number of cases of toxicosis is reduced by a third. Emphysema is twice as common in smokers, but Alzheimer's is three times as rare, as is Parkinson's disease.
Here - official medicine beats the gong of victory - that's it! It is absolutely clear that smokers are more at risk of becoming victims of frostbite - their tissues are less resistant to cold. Proven, verified, safe! Let's fight the bad habit! But then a report from the British Academy of Medicine creeps up on a sharp decrease in the number of ulcerative colitis in smokers compared to non-smokers - no, what kind of meanness is this ... The summary data once again shows that statistics are a false, inaccurate and insane science. But it turns out much worse when these statistics are suddenly put in order. A wild scandal ended in 1993 with the appearance of a medical report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the state of health of the population of the continent in 1989-1990. Here you also need to take into account that in Australia, with its centralized system of treatment centers and health insurance, any statistical research looks much more convincing and larger than the data of European and American centers.
“How to live long? My recipe is: 5-6 cigars a day. 3-4 shots of whiskey. And no physical education!”
Winston Churchill
So, according to this report, the health of Australian smokers was generally better than the health of non-smokers or quitters. Atherosclerotic disease and cancer, the two main bogeymen in the fight against smoking, have shown very modest results in those who, according to their indications, do not release smoking sticks from their mouths, compared with their non-smokers. Considering how much money the anti-nicotine lobbyists managed to pump out of public pockets just at that time for their great struggle, then for such reports of their compilers it would be worth feeding the sharks frolicking in the coastal waters of Sydney ...
Compared to this bomb, one could even ignore the traditionally disgusting results of Greece (the highest percentage of smokers in Europe and at the same time the lowest level of oncology and diseases of the circulatory system). What is this Greece - in the end they have the sun there, wine, mountain air, folk dances.
How Nicotine Works
Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine. When tobacco is burned, some of the nicotine enters the body with smoke through the lungs and mucous membranes. After that, together with the blood, nicotine is carried to all organs and begins to penetrate into tissue cells. In fact, getting into our cage is not so easy - the face control at the entrance will be more serious than in the most elite club, and there is nothing special for guests outside the list to catch. But nicotine was lucky. Part of the cell's receptors, designed to provide unhindered access inside the natural enzyme of our body - acetylcholine, perceives nicotine as one of the forms of this enzyme. And open the doors wide. There are a lot of actions that nicotine has on the body.
It speeds up the heartbeat, constricts blood vessels (and at the same time promotes their growth), enters into close interaction with the neurons of the brain, stimulates the production of the dopamine pleasure enzyme - there is practically not a single sphere inside us where nicotine does not stick its nose. But at the same time, there are no too rapid changes in us. Unlike alcohol, for example, nicotine behaves quite modestly, very quickly integrates into the overall working process of metabolism and is so to the liking of our body that, having quickly recovered from the first vomiting and dizziness, it begins to demand more and more portions of this substances, considering it now a legitimate part of their own system.
Doomsday
Now the heads are not chopped off yet, but, apparently, everything is going to that. Sixteen years ago, the largest tobacco companies in the United States already acknowledged their obligation to pay the 46 states $206,000,000 to cover smokers' health insurance costs. Insurance companies danced victory dances for a long time. Still, most of the existing diseases fell under the “nicotine amnesty” - it was enough for the patient to indicate that he was a smoker, and bills for his treatment were sent to centers for the distribution of tobacco subsidies. Considering that the products of tobacco companies are already subject to huge taxes, and the companies themselves still regularly pay multimillion-dollar sums in claims of private “victims”, it would seem that such an indemnity can be satisfied. It wasn't there.
In January 2014, the US Department of Justice and the five largest tobacco companies Philip Morris USA, Reynolds American, British American Tobacco, Liggett Group and Lorillard Tobacco reached an agreement after 15 years of litigation. Initially, the Justice Department was seeking $280 billion in damages from cigarette manufacturers on charges that fifty years ago they were involved in a criminal conspiracy to hide from the public that smoking is addictive and inhaled smoke is dangerous, and claiming that "light" cigarettes are less harmful. As a result, tobacco companies were found guilty of defrauding consumers, but they were forgiven a tidy sum of money, forcing them only to publicly admit to their deeds. If the Justice Department had insisted on the payment, then these giants of industry would have simply gone bankrupt.
Why are people so afraid of tobacco?
Anti-smoking money that is gnawed off from tobacco companies and milked from government budgets is sums with a lot of zeros. It is not surprising that such a golden luster attracts so many fiery fighters, angry orators and passionate guardians for the happiness of mankind. People will always pay two types of citizens, this is still the royal philosopher Marcus Aurelius said: "Those who entertain them and those who frighten them."
Of course, the entertainment show business is still on a larger scale, but the “scarecrow” business is also quite flourishing.
Hundreds of foundations are safely pocketing tobacco millions, feeding doctors and journalists, politicians and public figures. Of course, you can still fight abortion, power plants, genetically modified products, bad ecology, the crisis of overproduction, the automotive industry ... But in most of these cases, too powerful forces are usually on the side of the "vice", which so far are quite successful. resist such attacks. Try the same genetically modified products the other day - half of all US farmers will rise up against you, there are no fools to butt heads with such bulls. And the tobacco companies turned out to be quite fat and appetizing, but at the same time too weak. Atu them, atu!
Successes in the fight against the demonic potion stagger the imagination - bastions fall after bastions. Smokers were hung with red flags on all sides, non-smokers were told that those with smoking things in their mouths encroach on your life and freedom. They stone your children, and they will grow up to be stupid freaks, they deprive men of sexual power, they jinxed your cows and dance naked on Bald Mountain! .. In general, the old recipes still work well.
Convincing a modern non-smoker that a person with a cigarette at the other end of a restaurant does him absolutely no harm is like trying to tell a pious inhabitant of Cologne five hundred years ago that witches do not really ferment milk and do not spoil children in mother's womb.
The strangest poison in the world
Nicotine boils at a temperature of 140-145°C, dissolves in water, ether and alcohol, is a very strong poison. A few centigram drops of nicotine kills a horse. It's true. But now the dog needs two or three drops already, and if you take a goat or a sheep, then these animals will calmly drink even ten drops, without even blinking. Amoebas can generally exist perfectly, frolicking in a one percent nicotine solution, but for some reason the tubercle bacillus instantly throws off its hooves (or whatever else it has) even in the presence of an insignificant amount of this alkaloid in the environment (which is why experienced doctors of tuberculosis sanatoriums furtively suggest to their patients not to rush to quit smoking, but to recover first).
“Quitting smoking is easy, I have done it a hundred times myself”
Mark Twain
If a non-smoker eats twenty cigarettes, he will either die or be permanently mentally damaged, but for schizophrenics, smoking helps block bouts of insanity - nicotine has a beneficial effect on the functioning of their neurons. The leech, which was used to suck the blood of a smoker, lives on average 20% longer than its “non-smoking” counterparts, but if a person with a planted leech smokes at that time, the little animal will die very quickly in terrible convulsions.
6 Safe Ways to Reduce the Harm of Smoking
Don't smoke more than half a cigarette
Better immediately light the next one, throwing away the cigarette butt, the darkened filter of which already does a poor job of absorbing harmful substances.
Don't smoke on an empty stomach
Even if you belong to those creative individuals who, having opened their eyes in the morning, immediately begin to fumble with a weak hand for smoking accessories on the nightstand, prepare the nightstand in the evening so that the hand stumbles upon some yogurt or fruit first. Rape yourself - eat them. Now you can smoke with a sense of accomplishment.
eat apples
If you could compensate for every cigarette you smoked with half an apple eaten on the same day, then the harm from smoking in your case would be minimized - the substances contained in the apple would help your body restore the balance of microelements and reduce the risk of exposure to carcinogens. But, of course, you can’t cram so many apples into yourself. So just eat as much as you like.
Don't put a cigarette in your mouth
The smoke will be inhaled even if you just press the filter to almost closed lips. It will just be less. At first, it will be unusual to smoke this way, but the good thing about being a smoker is that you get used to everything very quickly.
Breathe more fresh air and move
It is better to smoke twenty cigarettes and take an hour-long jog in the park than not smoke one and sit in a stuffy room all day. If your conscience makes you spend twenty minutes longer in the gym and sleep with the window open, then your smoking is not so harmful in general.
Don't bite yourself, don't torture yourself, don't scare yourself with cancer and emphysema
If you smoke, then do it with pleasure and a pure heart. Fears, nervousness and hypochondria themselves often become the causes of serious diseases, and not only nervous ones. Many experts are sure that by always expecting the worst and being tormented by anxiety, one can provoke the development of oncological diseases in oneself.
Potion persecution
The mayor of New York is a pink helpless baby compared to the real anti-smokers.
1515
The Inquisition of Spain declares war on "the demonic potion of the pagans, which smokes from the mouth and makes people look like devils." The export of tobacco to Spain and Portugal is prohibited, and those who violate this ban are subject to flogging.
1525
In Portugal, smokers are excommunicated.
1530
In England, smoking is punishable by death. The law, however, lasted less than a year.
1550-1690
In Russia, those who smoke bloody weed get their nostrils torn out. An exception is made only for foreigners, and then they are allowed to indulge in vice only in places designated for their residence.
1650-1750
In China, tobacco use or possession is punishable by death by decapitation.
