Is it OK to smoke one cigarette a week
Just one cigarette a day can increase the likelihood of cardiovascular disease.Honestly, one a week probably won't do too much to your body.Using data from 141 different studies, involving millions of participants, researchers compared people who smoked either one, five, or 20 cigarettes each day.Hackshaw's team found that smoking just one cigarette a day raised the risk of heart disease by 57%.Intuitively, smoking one cigarette instead of 20 [the number of cigarettes in a pack] should have about 1/20th the risk, and this is probably what many people feel is the case, hackshaw says.One cigarette a week is probably not harmful imo.
A regular cigarette contains one or two milligrams of nicotine, while a cigar includes 100 or 200 milligrams.British researchers say lighting up just once a day.Eating at mcdonalds once a week is probably worse.
