In 1642, Pope Innocent X issued a papal bull forbidding priests to "take tobacco in leaf, in powder, in smoke, by mouth or nostrils in any of the churches of Seville, nor throughout the archbishopric"
Smoking affects your body by: raising your blood pressure and heart rate lowering oxygen levels in your blood reducing blood flow to your heart and brain increasing the risk of blood clots damaging your arteries weakening the walls of your arteries, increasing the risk of an aneurysm (bulging blood vessel) harming your lungs and making breathing harder increasing the risk of chronic lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) increasing the risk of poor blood flow to your legs lowering good cholesterol and raising triglycerides
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I love that about them because they thought differently than other people in their time and place." Hildegard of Bingen, for example, whom Morbitzer depicts with earbuds and flame-colored eye shadow, "was worried about pollution and deforestation and climate change in the Dark Ages," she said
Mayer, on the other hand, said it was quite advantageous to stop smoking cigarettes even at the risk of gaining some weight
