Writer Andrew Malinin, one of the most influential researchers in Russia, the history of tobacco in his book "Tobacco. Passed over in silence the Ministry of Health "asks this question: America has given the Old World more than a thousand plant products: potatoes, coffee, quinine, tomatoes, corn, tobacco ... but only one of them was so huge spread - the tobacco, why?
Malinin himself in no hurry to answer this question - as a real scholar, he knows: exactly this question - half of the answer.
So why - tobacco? Potatoes, tomatoes, corn - is clear: food. Coffee - a stimulant. Quinine - a drug. Tobacco - every little bit: he might stifle the appetite, and clean the brains, and cheer up, and relieve pain. But, apparently, and something else. Strictly speaking, we do not smoke tobacco, smoke combustion products of tobacco leaf - ie smoke.
Prof. Igor Moiseyev, gendiretkor Pogarskij cigarette, cigar factory, wrote in his monograph, "Tobacco and the tobacco industry. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ":
"Tobacco smoke is hot (cigarette, cigarette) and cold (pipe, hookah), but any cigarette smoke contains up to 2000 solid, liquid and gaseous chemical compounds, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic properties."
All 2,000 compounds, at least, unsound. And some are dangerous. Alkaloids and nicotine - among the latter. One cigarette contains up to one milligram of nicotine. As some argue, this dose, injected intravenously, is enough to kill.
But we are continuing to smoke!
Doctors from the American College Baylor led by prof. John Dani, argue that to understand why a person is doing it: nicotine is able to significantly improve memory and speed up the transmission of intercellular signals in the brain. The rate of pulses in the brain of mice, which was injected into the body nicotine, compared with a control group of rodents was higher by nearly 200%. In addition, scientists have expressed an interesting theory of psychological (as is known, is as strong as it is physical) dependence on smoking. It turns out that a smoker reaches for a cigarette in a circle of friends, after dinner or conversation in the bar, guilty of the very useful properties of harmful substances.
Admission nicotine allows the brain to work faster, forcing centers to capture the memory of the circumstances under which it occurs, as positive. Thus, in the brain actually is printed: "Smoking is good!" "Nicotine teaches us to smoke, so how the brain perceives it as an absolute benefit of the body," - commented Professor Dani.
Even in 2006, data were obtained, according to which smokers was 70% lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Nicotine significantly reduced and the rate of development of Alzheimer's disease. In addition, it improves the condition of patients with ulcerative colitis and removes pain in many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. It is believed that smokers rarely develop allergic reactions. Actually, this cigar on the portal have already written to Dr. Rozanov.
These American studies cited by me on the Russian source (infox.ru). It was given another one that confused me, figure: the nicotine content of cigarettes is 300 milligrams.
The figure seemed otherworldly. And I called Nadezhda Puzdrovoy, k.teh.nauk, which leads to the factory Pogarskij scientific field (and also the laboratory for the study of tobacco is probably one of the best in Russia).
"The content of nicotine in cigarettes is really 0,8-1 mg. As for cigars, there is a big problem - in the world there is no single standard smoking cigars and single assessment methodology.
Why not adapt the machine for prokurivaniya cigarettes to cigars? "A cigar and cigar smoker's behavior is worse amenable to standardization - a lot of cigar sizes, smoking a cigar in different ways - someone frequent drags on, some deep, but rare, and so No technique, no standard cigar smoking.
However, if the laboratory can not be Public Prosecutor cigar, as is done with cigarettes, it can be tested as he leaves the cigar tobacco - I saw it in the laboratory Pogarskij factory.
"Yes, - confirms N. Puzdrova. - We do it regularly. The proportion of nicotine in the cigar leaf - from 1.3 to 4 percent. Probably in most cigar - the same 4 percent?
"I brought the data on tobacco leaf, - said N. Puzdrova. - The cigars no data.
Probably, the extrapolation from the tobacco leaf in the cigar, twisted a few tobacco leaves, not entirely scientific. But you can do the verification and comparison: cigarette weighs 1 oz. and provides 1 milligram of nicotine. Cigar weighs 20 grams. and provides - albeit crudely and approximately - 20 milligrams of nicotine. But not 300. And most importantly - do not smoke cigars swallowed (or as previously mentioned - drunk) cigar smoker.
Erkin Tuzmukhamedov quoted the chief surgeon of the United States: smoking cigars - not smoking. Although the process is the same: the inhalation of combustion products of tobacco leaf.
Willie Alver argues that cigar is not a matter of nicotine addiction. Agrees with him and Anatoly Rychkov, first vice-president of the Moscow cigar club. I did, solely from personal experience, I can say that there is still addictive. Let not as pronounced as that of cigarette smokers, but it is. At least I do.
Perhaps, in the case of cigars psychologically addictive - scientists claim that alkaloids, which have in small doses, stimulating and stimulating the nervous system, contributing to the development of adrenaline, causing both physical and psychological addiction. Nicotine, being the most powerful neurotoxin in high doses causes paralysis of the nervous system.
At the introductory lecture on September 10 opened the sixth trimester Cigar University, first vice-president of the Moscow cigar club Klepikov Alexander said, referring to the audience: "Any smoking - is harmful. Do not deceive ourselves. But if you have already decided to smoke, then smoking must be the best. Cigar in this regard is the undisputed choice.
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