Even light cigarettes are harmful to your arteries
January 21st, 2010 | 
Author: In a new study suggests that smoking even one cigarette per day narrows the arteries of young people by 25 percent.
The narrower the arteries in man, the greater the risk of heart disease and stroke, said researcher Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou, vascular medicine specialist at McGill University Medical Center in Montreal.
It measured the blood pressure in smokers and non-smokers aged 18 to 30 years, at rest and after exercise. To establish baseline measurements, smokers who smoked five or six cigarettes a day were asked to abstain from smoking for 12 hours before their first exercise. Before the second test, smokers were allowed to smoke a cigarette. Before the last test, study participants were asked to chew nicotine gum.
After exercise, arterial stiffness in non-smokers fell by 3.6 percent, and among smokers increased by 2.2 per cent, 12.6 per cent after the nicotine gum and 24.5 per cent after fumigate one cigarette.
Differences in blood pressure between smokers and nonsmokers at rest were found.
"Our results are important because they show that smoking a few cigarettes a day affects the health of the arteries," said a press release, the Canadian Foundation of vascular surgery. "This test gave clear results when young people are physically loaded.
"Essentially, this means that even" light "smoking is bad for human health and can damage the artery, jeopardizing the ability of their bodies to cope with the physical activities, such as climbing stairs or jogging for a bus.
This study was presented Oct. 27 at the Congress of the Canadian Foundation for Cardiovascular Surgery.
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