Even if you’re a healthy college student, smoking just one cigarette impairs how your arteries function over the course of the next few days. A recent study showed that the arteries of nine college students who smoke less than a pack a week, and who hadn’t smoked in two days, were 36% less responsive to blood flow changes than non-smokers. The study notes that reduced responsiveness to blood flow “is an early sign of arterial damage that often foreshadows cardiovascular disease.”
Combine this knowledge with the fact that nicotine addiction becomes stronger after each use, that you can become addicted after smoking just a few cigarettes, and that tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S. – is it really worth it?
-posted by Chris Miller
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