| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Disease |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Smoking stiffens the aorta within one minute after lighting up, and the effect lasts 20 |
| minutes or more. |
| Reuters Health eLine, January 7, 1997 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Women who smoke 25 to 34 cigarettes a day are 1.8 times more likely to develop a |
| pulmonary embolism than their nonsmoking counterparts, and smoking more than 34 |
| cigarettes a day increased the risk by 3.4 times. |
| Reuters Medical News, February 25, 1997 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Smokers with no history of heart disease are 20 times more likely than nonsmokers to |
| suffer from myocardial ischemia, or inadequate oxygen supply to the heart, if they |
| smoke in the 24 hours before surgery. |
| Reuters, October 22, 1997 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Women who smoke and use oral contraceptives are up to 30 times more likely to |
| have a heart attack and 22 times more likely to have a stroke than women who neither |
| smoke nor use birth control pills. |
| Journal of the American Medical Association, September 11, 1987, p. 1339 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
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