A side effect of smoking - a tasteless food

According to the Health of Ukraine, "a new experiment designed to determine the effect of smoking on the human body, showed that the use of nicotine decreases the sensitivity of taste receptors located in the mouth in humans. A study conducted by the Greek experts, lies in the electrical stimulation of the taste threshold. It was attended by 62 people, among whom there were 28 smokers and 34 non-smoking party. If you use electricity in humans there is a metallic taste in the mouth. The degree of sensitivity was determined by the number of current, which needed a man to get a taste sensation.

The study showed that fans tobacco taste sensitivity was worse than non-smokers. At the next stage of the study of the endoscopic method were carried out measurements of taste receptors, so-called mushroom papillae. It turned out that the adherents of habit receptors have a flattened shape and reduced blood supply, which causes a weakening of taste sensitivity.

According to Pavlidis Pavlos, lead author of the study from the University of Thessalonica. Aristotle, the study showed that taste sensitivity in smokers and non-smokers is significantly different, but nicotine can adversely affect the taste buds.

As previously reported, 12.06.2009, the U.S. Senate adopted a bill establishing additional restrictions on the companies that produce tobacco products in the field of advertising their products and possible control of the oversight bodies. Legislators believe that such innovations would reduce the influence of tobacco advertising on youth, as well as savings of $ 100 billion a year on medical services that are available adherents of habit.

According to statistics, in the United States more than 45 million smokers. Each year, the disease caused by smoking, claiming the lives of 400 thousand people. In recent years the number of smokers in the United States is gradually decreasing due to improved awareness of the relationship of smoking and lung cancer.