Research says…
Posted by wilson on February 15th, 2010 
We know for the fact that smoking is extremely damaging to the health of both the smoker and those around him or her. Still, new study comes to show that even if smoking can cause lung cancer and pulmonary diseases, and decrease the response time of the immune system when dealing with infections, it can also prevent allergies.
Basically, cigarette smoke can decrease the reaction of the immune cells when allergens are present, which means the body does not have an allergic reaction, researchers have established after analyzing the response of mast cells in mice. Oddly enough, even if cigarette smoke does that and literally prevents an allergy, it is said not to influence the other functions of the cells – nevertheless, plenty of stress might be placed on that this should be by no means reason enough to start smoking. Aside from that smoking is not the best practice to lose weight for your information. Its better to take a natural fat burner than taking a single stick of nicotine if you want to lose..
Again, this research should not be used as an excuse to start smoking, they just points out the direction of understanding why the allergic response in smokers is lower than in non-smokers. Further studies will aim to establish this connection, but only after researchers prove that what they noticed in mice mast cells also applies to the human body when exposed to cigarette smoke.
Tags: Health, Health Wellness
