European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 health science news smoking strongest risk for Young women quitting has a dramatic and immediate effect against heart disease the hazards of smoking risk what smokers May expect Dos expectancy effects of smoking Low brands effects of quitting have a life expectancy yearn Shorter Man nonsmokers lung cancer smoking cigarettes major cause in both men and according to a 1979 surgeon general report reduces risk of death from certain which implies Art extended be expectancy cumulatively after 1015 sex smokers death rate approaches that of nonsmokers reduces risk but is still 5 times that of nonsmokers Tow brands reduce male risk by female risk by 40 gradual decrease in risk after 10 15 years approaches rate of nonsmokers Larynx cancer including pipe and if s to times that of Mouth cancer reduces risk 2449 less risk than that of cigarettes gradual decrease in risk Normal rate after 10 years cigarette smokers have 310 times As Many Oral cancers As nonsmokers chewing tobacco also major risk factors alcohol seems synergistic Carcinogen with smoking no identified Benefit gradual risk decrease reducing or eliminating reduces risk in first few years risk drops to nonsmoker level in 1015 years cancer of oesophagus cancer of bladder cigarette smokers have 7 to 10 times greater risk synergistic with certain exposed occupations no identified Benefit Benefit since risks am dose eliminating should decrease risk Benefit risk decreases gradually to that of nonsmokers within 7 years cancer of pancreas Garette smokers have 2 to 5 times no went fled Tafs Benefit there is cry tence of Dos related reducing or should reduce risk v coronary heart disease cigarette smoking is major Factor responsible for excess deaths from coronary heart disease each year Benefit male Tow smokers have 12 Tower rate of coronary heart disease than High smokers 19 Tower female Tow smokers Benefit sharply decreased risk after one year after 10 a smokers risk is same As nonsmokers cart route pulmonary emphysema cigarette smokers have 4 to 25 times greater risk damage seen in lungs of even Young smokers no identified Benefit Benefit coughing and sputum disappear during first few weeks lung function improves Low birth weight smoking mothers have More stillbirths and babies of Tow which makes the babies More vulnerable to disease no identified Benefit smoking Flor theft Benefit women who Stop smoking before 4th month of pregnancy eliminate risk of Stillbirth and Tow birth weight and socially seven no identified Benefit since children of  mothers Are bigger and More advanced inference is that not smoking during pregnancy might peptic ulcer cigarette smokers get More peptic ulcers and die More often from them cure is More difficult in smokers no identified Benefit Benefit a smokers get ulcers but they Are More Likely to heal rapidly and completely than those of smokers immune system smokers May be mom sensitive to Una nonspecific noxious effects of no Werr fled Benefit Benefit As Many 17 of Arne foam suffer asthma or Hay fever smoking increases these sensitivities directly and immediately risk is Avo Ted by not medicines smoking alters pharmacologic effects of Many medicines and diagnostic tests greatly increases risk of thrombosis with Oral contraceptives no identified Benefit Benefit majority of blood components elevated by smoking return to Normal nonsmokers on Pill have much Tower risks of thrombosis source american cancer society new York up smoking substantially increases the risk of heart attack in Young especially those using birth control pills or those with High Choles Boston and Philadelphia researchers said the More cigarettes smoked the greater the chances of having heart whether or not a woman has other predisposing Lynn Rosenberg and her col leagues reported in an Issue of the journal of the american medical association de voted to scientific reports about speaking of women under Rosenberg said in a Telephone women in this age smoking is the strongest risk i think its fairly obvious if these women were not to then the people who were getting heart attacks would not get smoking about two packs a Day increased the risk for heart attack while smoking up to 15 cigarettes a Day Only slightly increased the said of the bos ton University school of in women with High blood i High Levels of cholesterol in their a family history of heart a Type a or heart problems also linked to increased risk for heart disease smoking increased the risk even women smoking More than 25 cigarettes a Day and using birth control pills ran a risk More than four times that of comparable smokers not using Oral it is important to note for chd coronary heart cessation of smok ing has a dramatic and immediate Charles Hennekens and Julie of the Harvard medical said in an editorial accompanying the journal within a year of not that risk of heart which can be a predictor for coronary heart the Boston researchers and researchers at the University of Pennsylvania school of medi Cine in Philadelphia based their study on 555 women who were hospitalized for their first heart attack and and on women who did not have heart attacks but were hospitalized for other eighty percent of the women with heart problems and 54 percent of the other women also reported in the journal women who smoke Are at least three times More Likely than nonsmokers to take More than a year to get research ers from the National Institute of Environ mental health sciences research of Trian Gle based on a study of the smoking and Conception histories of 678 pregnant women Ages 18 to heavy smoking appears to almost halve female smoking reduces blood flow through the brain in the possibly increasing the risks of stroke and certain neurological according to researchers of the veterans administration medical Center in new heart Kaffack findings no to drink new York up moderate alcohol intake in creases protein components in the blood thought important in reducing heart disease but researchers say that no reason to Start the Stanford University study of 24 nonsmoking men supports previous research indicating that two drinks a Day lessens the risk of the artery hardening Dis ease that sets the stage for heart attack and the blood components Are called App lipoproteins Ai and and recent research indicates nigh Levels of them reduce the buildup of fatty materials on the inside Walls of coronary the results of the Stanford study were reported in the journal of the american medical for six half the men in the Stanford study stopped their usual consumption of two or three drinks a blood Levels of these protein components were measured before the study after six weeks and again five weeks after the men resumed their drinking the rest of the men Fol Lowed the same but in after six weeks of abstention from amounts of the protective proteins in the blood had decreased about 10 per a significant said the the protein Levels returned to restudy Levels after drinking was the changes in Apo Ai and Apo Aii concentrations were directly correlated with the change in a subjects alcohol intake during the period of resumed wrote Carlos Camargo and researchers at Stanford University medical Center in Palo but it the study should not be interpreted As a License to Start drinking or to continue drinking in Ca now a medical student at the University of califor Nia in san much More than about ounces of pure alcohol a Day can have a much different effect on blood said the that alcohol is what might be in two or three with a Glass of wine or Beer having about As much alcohol As a shot of in addition to causing other heavy drinking can increase the chances of heart attack in people prone to Irreg rapid according to the american heart Asso the men studied were moderate drinkers aged 30 to they said their exercise and except for alcohol did not change during the