make a pamphlate creating awarness on 'no smoking' injerious to health
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Smoking leads to poor health outcomes and is has a statutory warning printed on all cigarette packs. But yet people smoke. Most people associate smoking to lung cancer etc. but in all probability they do not understand that smoking has an impact on all aspects of health such as follows:
a.Poor oxygen to lungs leading to heart conditions
b.Increases storage of unwanted fat in the body leading to higher cholesterol
c.Genetic abnormality in children where mothers are smokers
d.It increases blood glucose and blood pressure
Diabetes is on the rise. Lately smoking has been clearly associated with diabetes as it increases the blood glucose levels and reduces the efficiency of insulin activity. Smoking is now proven to be an independent risk factor for diabetes, and amongst diabetics it increases the risk of complications. The more you smoke, the more chance you have of getting diabetes. If you smoke 16 to 25 cigarettes a day, your risk for Type 2 Diabetes is 3 times greater than a non-smoker’s risk. When you quit smoking, your risk decreases during the years.
The fact that smoking increases blood glucose levels and leads to type 2 Diabetes is getting more and more well established. In the recent past some major studies have pointed in this direction. In fact it has been declared by US department of Health in 2014 that smokers are at 30-40% increased risk of developing diabetes .
A recent research article has compared several such studies where a link was established between hyperglycemia and smoking. They compared hyperglycemia and nicotine impact on body in terms of insulin sensitivity and pancreatic β cells. These were an assessment of population based studies to highlight the epidemiologic and functional association between smoking and hyperglycemia and to create a process that makes smoking assessment as a part of the protocol for diabetes diagnosis and management process.