For some people, smoking and drinking coffee is a pleasure which there is no comparison. But according to the cardiologist, the pleasure derived from a combination of coffee and cigarettes worth the risk of heart damage that is accelerating.

Sometimes, a cigarette while drinking a cup of strong coffee is considered not just a matter of taste but also imaging. Many consider cigarettes and black coffee as a symbol of masculinity, so that men would feel more manly when I’m enjoying both.

“My coffee strong, something that my cigarette. One, nicotine stimulate the heart go faster, but caffeine is also the same effect,” said Dr H Aulia Sani, SpJP (K) FJCC, FIHA, FASCC, a cardiologist from the hospital when found Sahid Sahirman at work.

Because the effect is the same, then the caffeine in coffee and nicotine in cigarettes to work mutually reinforcing. When the heart is working too quickly from the effects of two compounds, then it should bear the burden will be increased so that in time they will be broken.

According to Dr Aulia, smoking itself is the most important risk factor in various diseases of the heart and blood vessels. As risk factors for heart attack, smoking is even more danger than a history of hypertension and diabetes or diabetes mellitus.

Besides threatening the heart, smoking is also a risk factor for other chronic diseases, especially cancer. Whereas in women, a variety of toxic compounds in cigarette smoke can also impair fetal growth as long as still in the womb.

In addition, the 2007 study have revealed that coffee can indeed influence the smoking habit. Seseoran the mood to quit smoking often fail because of still drinking coffee, which in his mind already attached to smoking.