「主流煙」より多くの有害物質を含む「副流煙」

　写真は梅雨空の下、築山に咲いてる今朝の「ねむの花」です。樹木は近年、種が零れて自然に生えたもので、未だ若く、幹も細いのに咲き過ぎでしょうか、ちょっと栄養不足気味です。それでも、緑一色の中での鮮やかなピンクは目を惹きます。年々良い花になるでしょう。その日を夢見て剪定により樹形を整え、しっかり育てます。

　ところで、昨日は嬉しいことがありました。５月に受けた高崎市の健康診断結果では、血液検査による各内臓や前立腺がん健診の結果はすでに届いており「異常なし」でしたが、胸部レントゲンの結果が来てませんでした。昨日、その結果が分かり、判定は「異常なし」で安心しました。昨日、偶然にも私はこのフェイスブックで「ラジオ体操による呼吸筋の効果」について書きましたが、同じ日に胸部レントゲン結果が届きました。

　私はタバコは吸いません。しかし、火がついたタバコの先から出る「副流煙」はタバコを吸い込む人の「主流煙」より有害物質がたくさん含まれていると専門家は伝えてます。

　主流煙を１とした場合、副流煙に含まれるニコチン(血流を悪化させる)は２．８倍、タール(ヤニ、発がん物質)は３．４倍、一酸化炭素(酸素不足を招く)は４．７倍といわれます。このため、タバコを吸っていなくても、家庭や職場でタバコによる有害物質を吸ってしまう危険が潜んでいます。ですから、喫煙場所やタバコの煙から離れることが我が身を守ります。

Dear my friends who are crazy about nature, health and great music.

　The simultaneous interpretation into English for our mutual understanding will be done after my breakfast in Japan time.

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　The photo shows the Silk tree flowers blooming on the artificial hill this morning under the rainy season sky. The tree grew naturally from seeds scattered in recent years, and although it is still young and a thin trunk, it seems to be a little undernourished, perhaps because it has bloomed too much. Even so, the vivid pink color amid the green is eye-catching. It will become a beautiful flower year by year. Dreaming of that day, I will prune the branches to shape it and make it raise strong.

　By the way, something good happened yesterday. The results of the health check I had in May by Takasaki City, which included blood tests for each internal organ and prostate cancer, had already arrived and showed no abnormalities, but the results of my chest X-ray had not yet arrived. I received the results yesterday, and was relieved to see that they showed no abnormalities as well. Coincidentally, yesterday I wrote about the effect of radio gymnastics on respiratory muscles on this Facebook page, and on the same day I received the results of my chest X-ray.

　I don't smoke. However, expert says that "secondhand smoke" that comes out from the end of a lit cigarette contains more harmful substances than "mainstream smoke" emitted by someone who inhales a cigarette.

　If mainstream smoke is considered to be 1, secondhand smoke contains 2.8 times as much nicotine (which impairs blood flow), 3.4 times as much tar (tar, a carcinogen), and 4.7 times as much carbon monoxide (which causes oxygen deficiency). For this reason, even if we don't smoke, there is a lurking risk of inhaling harmful substances from cigarette at home or at work. Therefore, the best way to protect ourselves is to stay away from smoking areas and the smoke of cigarette.