Smokers and coffee
Coffee and smoking have about the same harmful effect on heart.
Simultaneous smoking and drinking coffee have a harmful effect on heart not by two but by several times than only one action. The research developed by doctors from Athenian Institute of Medicine (Greece) showed that appearance of caffeine in blood causes lowering of aorta?s flexibility, increase of blood viscosity and vasoconstriction and that in the aggregate leads to rise of heart burden (it has to overpass the greater resistance of cardiovascular system). Nicotine causes vasoconstriction increasing vessels? resistance to current of blood. While simultaneous action, particularly prolonged (scientists looked after participants of research during six months), influence of two agents do not just sum up, but increases by several times. As doctors say caffeine and nicotine become synergists and exponentiate activity of each other. Doctor Karalambos Vlachopulos, the head of this research said: "We did not examine mechanism of synergism of caffeine and nicotine but the results of our research are obvious. I think every smoker knows that his bad habit is injurious to health and coffee lover understands that his favorite stimulative drink is not so harmless. But as it was found total effect of two factors becomes not just double but is very detrimental to health."
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