Chain smoking

A chain smoker is mostly a consumer of cigarettes or other tobacco products, which they consumed almost incessantly. Because of the addictive nature of nicotine is to assume that the chain smoking is the ultimate form of this dependence. Cases have been known where a man was smoking about 120 to 140 cigarettes a day. Under cigar or pipe smokers, the phenomenon is " chain smoking " not widespread.

Definition

A definition of the " chain smoker " does not currently exist. Helpful for this may be that the WHO classifies a consumer who smokes more than 20 cigarettes per day than heavy smokers.

Risks

With this extreme consumption go usually distinctive health problems associated, not only for the heavy smoker, for its environment. The problems begin with the fact that humans need a certain amount of time to sleep and decreases in the sleep phase, the level of narcotic drugs due to lack of new supply and because of the poison processed in the body. Therefore, the addicts have already shortly after waking a high consumption needs, which may be associated with sleep disturbances. Because the body's chemical differences to women a higher addiction risk than men. Statistically, smokers have already shortened life expectancy. On the chain -smoking, this exacerbated. A high percentage of heavy smokers is in the course of life in danger of developing the relevant cancers (especially lung cancer) and / or COPD. However, since a heavy smoker is not a scientific term, they are not listed separately in statistics.