If you are smoking easily, and will adversely affect cardiopulmonary function also.

Tobacco, when you discovered the "America", "Columbus" in 1492,
To receive a "herbal" use such as "treatment", and "ritual", from the indigenous people,
Was brought back to Europe, reputation has spread quickly all over the world well.

To Japan, almost simultaneously with the landing of the Portuguese, was handed down.
In the country, leaves of tobacco are grown, and rapidly became popular.
In Japan, long-lived grass (drug of longevity), but had been told at that time,
"Kaibara Ekiken" doctor of the early Edo period, and the poison of tobacco, made me aware of the habit,
And "stay away from the beginning it is good," said.
In fact, without any medicine now also come out dead, cure,
Also be the cause of the fire, and uneconomical,
Issue a non smoking ordinance, but also often the Tokugawa Shogunate, the epidemic did not decline.
There was also forbade the cultivation, "Tokugawa Yoshimune" Shogun, the
Will Kinjiyo a cigarette, did not.
Non smoking ordinance after "Ieharu Tokugawa Shogun" teen is no longer issued.


When the Meiji Era, cigarette tobacco, has spread.
To tobacco, Western financial formula has been introduced, and became valuable resources of the Meiji government.
Happened in 1894 in the "Sino-Japanese War," Despite the victory,
Japan've spent a large amount of national budget, the
I decided to make a leaf of tobacco country.
At the time, between tobacco manufacturers, competition is intense,
And prizes such as bicycles, with lottery sales, had been made.
Up to elementary school students how, because of that smoking spread.
Fall were also smoking in elementary school lottery mercenary.

First place in our country, but cause of death is cancer,
Lung cancer mortality showed a trend of increasing year by year in particular,
While a certain sequence to gastric cancer place.

Approximately five times that of human lung cancer incidence of 20 people who smoke cigarettes do not smoke daily.
In this 40 times larger than about 15.

There are also associated with number of years of smoking, and more than a number of years of smoking = 400 × number of cigarettes smoked per day also,
Lung cancer incidence is increased.
Some findings that could be caused by smoking and nearly 40% of the men who died of cancer.
In Japan is going to be about 81,000 people have died compute annual tobacco take to cause cancer.
Of men who died of cancer (38.6%)
(5.2%) of smoking was the cause of the woman who died of cancer.


Two-fold lung cancer risk ・
Passive smoking to lung cancer risk in women who do not smoke cigarettes suck the smoke of her husband,
(2 times) higher than if your husband does not smoke.

With 20 or more the amount of cigarettes smoked per day of her husband, the risk is even higher.
Risk of lung cancer compared with women of non-smokers husband was about 2-fold higher.

A breakdown of the number of cigarettes smoked, 1.7 times less than 20 in one day. And 2.2 times more than 20,
Was found that the greater the risk will increase the number.
In addition, 37 percent of women who develop adenocarcinoma of the lung,
Been prevented if there is no will in the calculation of passive smoking from husband.

The smoke spread in the air are included for small hazardous substances reach deep into the lungs.