Medical experts now recommend that NO alcohol be consumed during pregnancy. Brain and Central Nervous System Alcohol may produce lack of coordination, confusion, disorientation, stupor, anesthesia, coma, and finally death. Even in small amounts alcohol is especially dangerous when combined with barbiturates, tranquilizers, muscle relaxants, sleeping pills, or narcotics. Tobacco and The Body Mouth, Larynx, Esophagus Smokers have three times as many cavities as nonsmokers. Tobacco, both smoked and smokeless, is the leading cause of cancers of the cheeks, gums, palate, tongue and lips.
Smokers lose their teeth at a rate three times greater than nonsmokers.
Stomach, Heart Peptic ulcers are twice as high in smokers as nonsmokers. Nicotine from any source causes secretion of excessive amounts of gastric acids and delays healing of ulcers. Nicotine is a powerful constrictor of small arteries leading to insufficient oxygen supply to the heart and possible heart attacks. Carcinogens absorbed from cigarette smoke and smokeless tobacco are concentrated and excreted in the urine. The bladder and the kidneys are in constant contact with these cancer-causing chemicals.