Is smoking green-tea bad?
Smoking is bad not just because it’s tobacco, it’s because you are inhaling smoke – tiny particles of partially-burned carbon chains that have the capacity to latch onto DNA and damage it, causing cell injury and cancers. Other chemicals in the smoke dissolve in the blood and then leach out into the walls of blood vessels (arteries) elsewhere around the body. These chemicals injure the delicate arterial wall, making it permeable to fats, and inflammed, triggering the accumulation of lardy deposits called atheroma. As these deposits grow they progressively block arteries, eventually triggering strokes, heart attacks or your legs to fall off (just kidding on the last one). Statistically speaking, smoking is far worse for your heart and blood vessels than it is for your lungs. Most smokers don’t live long enough to get lung cancer. As such, inhaling any smoke, not just cigarettes, on a regular basis is likely to have the same effects. There are very clear links between days when air pollu
