Reducing emissions is of paramount importance in the automotive industry. Catalysts, advanced fuel injection, improved efficiency engines, a powertrain optimized for real use - and we could even list the extremely important solutions that have been put in place to reduce emissions from fossil fuel vehicles. However, these, too, only remained at the forefront and impressed with a sense of novelty until the first purely electric drive appeared. Although the purchase of electric cars alone will not save the Earth, it can be a powerful tool for wider change.
At the same time, it would be a mistake to think that only carmakers focus on harm reduction. Something similar is happening in the tobacco industry, where the presence of smoke also raises questions, not unreasonably!
According to international surveys, more than one billion people on Earth currently smoke, and 2 million people in Hungary smoke cigarettes. OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) statistics are no more promising. According to the organization's annual overview, Hungary is unfortunately on the podium in terms of the proportion of smokers among OECD countries, although smoking is harmful not only to its own organization, but also to that of others.
When smoking, not only the smoker's body is exposed to the harmful substances in the smoke, but also those in its surroundings, so it is very important that society pays as much attention as possible to reducing the harms of smoking.
Evidence that smoking is harmful to health. However, few people already know exactly what is causing this bad habit. Most call nicotine the substance most responsible for the development of diseases, although the primary source of danger is nothing more than burning, and the chemicals in the smoke produced during combustion.
When a cigarette is lit, more than six thousand chemicals are produced, some of which enter our bodies through the smoke. Nicotine is well known to be highly addictive and can cause symptoms such as headaches or dizziness, but today, leading scientific organizations in the field are also of the opinion that it is not nicotine but burns and smoke that are the main causes. , which are responsible for the development of smoking-related diseases. Indeed, 93 of the thousands of chemicals detected in the smoke have been identified by the FDA, the U.S. drug and food testing organization, as harmful or potentially harmful to health.
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