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Put That Cigarette And Drink Down… Heart Disease Is Just Around The Corner

November 26, 2007 by Kendra James, RN  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

Put That Cigarette And Drink Down… Heart Disease Is Just Around The Corner

Well duh… This is one of those, “I could have guessed that” pieces of info. Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t go into research, haha.
Tobacco smoke-filled air is bad for cardiovascular health, and drinking alcohol at the same time only makes it worse, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
There was a 4.7 fold increase in artery lesions when the mice were exposed to smoky air in a laboratory enclosure and fed a liquid diet containing ethanol, the intoxicating ingredient in alcohol. We need to curb our habits now…
via Science Daily


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