The health problems of smoking go beyond radiation and the lungs
Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies in VitaminDWiki
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- See also VitaminDWiki
- Smoking is 36 Times Worse Than Working at a Nuclear Reactor
- Polonium, Tobacco - Wikipedia
- Health effects of tobacco – Wikipedia
- Radioactive Fertilizer
- Human Exposure to Radioactivity From Tobacco Smoke: Systematic Review – July 2018
- High percentage of males on the planet still smoke
See also VitaminDWiki
- Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking
- Each ng extra vitamin D associated with better breathing (and 2X better for smokers) – March 2018
- If smoke, try Vitamin D - reduce damage or help quit - 2012
- Smoking associated with 2 times fewer heart problems if high vitamin D – Sept 2016
- Breathing by ever-smokers improved by monthly Vitamin D – RCT 2017
- Child exposed to smoke is 1.5 X more likely to have low vitamin D – Oct 2018
- Smoking associated with 9 ng less vitamin D age 40-50 – Nov 2014
- Severe Myopia associated with low vitamin D and smoking (which also reduces vitamin D) - Jan 2014
- Air pollution, toxins, heavy metals and smoking each result in lower Vitamin D levels – Nov 2018 has the following chart
Smoking is 36 Times Worse Than Working at a Nuclear Reactor
- “In 1998, major tobacco industries' internal secret documents were made available online by the Master Settlement Agreement, revealing that the industry was aware of the presence of a radioactive substance in tobacco as early as 1959.”
- “According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the industry's and our estimate of long-term lung rad of alpha particles causes 120-138 lung cancer deaths per year per 1,000 regular smokers.”
- “Polonium 210 is extraordinarily toxic when ingested or inhaled. In fact, it is 4500 times more toxic than radium 226….”
Polonium, Tobacco - Wikipedia
Polonium, Tobacco at Wikipedia March 2019
- Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide. Most of this polonium is derived from lead-210 deposited on tobacco leaves from the atmosphere; the lead-210 is a product of radon-222 gas, much of which appears to originate from the decay of radium-226 from fertilizers applied to the tobacco soils.
- The presence of polonium in tobacco smoke has been known since the early 1960s. Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched ways to remove the substance—to no avail—over a 40-year period. The results were never published.
Health effects of tobacco – Wikipedia
Wikipedia March 2019
- “Tobacco use is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally”
- “As many as half of people who use tobacco die from complications of tobacco use. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that each year tobacco causes about 6 million deaths (about 10% of all deaths) with 600,000 of these occurring in non smokers due to second hand smoke”
- “Some of the mineral apatite in Florida used to produce phosphate for U.S.A. tobacco crops contains uranium, radium, lead-210 and polonium-210 and radon”
Radioactive Fertilizer
Radioactive Fertilizer—The Surprising Primary Cause of Lung Cancer in Smokers Mercola Feb 2014
- “According to previous research, smoking 1 1/2 packs of cigarettes per day can expose your bronchial epithelium to a radiation dose equivalent to a radiation dose to your skin from 300 chest x-rays per year”
Human Exposure to Radioactivity From Tobacco Smoke: Systematic Review – July 2018
Nicotine Tob Res. 2018 Jul 17. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nty111
High percentage of males on the planet still smoke
>30% in Russia, Indonesia. China, Bangladesh, Boliva, etc.