| The consumption, and often abuse, of alcohol is often | | | | study puts an impression on the life-limiting effects of |
| accompanied by cigarette smoking. Ninety percent of | | | | smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. It |
| alcoholics also smoke Marlboro cigarettes in | | | | provides a stark illustration of how these risk factors in |
| comparison to about 30% of the general population. It | | | | middle age can reduce life expectancy." |
| has been proposed that smoking could, by delivering | | | | Smoking and drinking has been part of our social |
| the stimulating effects of nicotine, outset the | | | | practices for decades, and even though everybody |
| depressant effects of alcohol. Such a suggestion is | | | | knows it's bad for the health, everybody still does it. |
| consistent with animal studies which have indicated | | | | He added: "The good smoke news is that all of us can |
| that cross-tolerance exists between tobacco and | | | | make changes to help us live a healthy life for longer, |
| alcohol so that nicotine consumption may decrease | | | | even after 50. We know that stopping smoking and |
| sensitivity to the severe intoxicating effects of alcohol. | | | | reducing blood pressure and cholesterol, by lifestyle |
| But for the first time doctors have measured the | | | | changes and/or tablets, can prevent the start of heart |
| effect of the three major killers of middle-aged men: | | | | disease – and these findings suggest it could make |
| smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. And | | | | a decade of difference to our lives." |
| they found that men who smoke and don’t want | | | | Doctors discovered that smoking and alcohol cut the |
| to quit, or to control their blood pressure and | | | | people’s life. However another study found that a |
| cholesterol are losing 10 to 15 years of their lives. | | | | 100 year old man in China village Chijan Shutzin thinks |
| A previous study investigated 19,000 smokers and | | | | he can't live without cigarettes and alcohol. He began |
| non-smokers. They found that men who reached the | | | | smoking and drinking when he was young and does it |
| age of 50 with all three risk factors lived on average | | | | till this time when has dinner. His grandson counted that |
| to the age of 73, while those without any of the risks | | | | for his long live his grandfather drank 15 tons of vodka |
| lived till 83. When other risks were included, such as | | | | and smoked more than 1 ton of tobacco. He also eats |
| diabetes and obesity, they discovered that the less | | | | a lot. His usual dinner includes 2 trotters, a dish with fat |
| healthy lived until 70 on average, while the healthiest | | | | pork with the rice, fruit and vegetables. |
| lived till 85 years old. | | | | Scientists reported that this is a exception that |
| Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director at the | | | | can’t be explained. |
| British Heart Foundation (BHF), said: "This important | | | | |