When a person smokes a cigarette, the body responds immediately to the chemical nicotine in the smoke. Nicotine causes a short-term increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and the flow of blood from the heart. It also causes the arteries to narrow. Carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry.
Homelessness are social problem that impacts the health of a community for they are prone for a broad range of acute and chronic illnesses because they lack proper nutrition, good hygiene and they could be deprived of medical assistance.
Once they are sick, they could spread the infection to one community to the other because they have the tendency to hop on one place to the other where they can take shelter. Therefore, they could be a carrier of bacteria and viruses that will put the health of a community at risk.
Answer:
Prostaglandins
Explanation:
Prostaglandins are a class of lipids, that are secreted in the event of an injury, tissue damage or contraction. They're said to occur in almost every human organ. Contraction simply put, is when the inner muscles, the uterine begins to tighten and release at intervals during or before child-birth. So prostaglandins in this case helps to cause these contractions to occurr. it does this by also softening the cervix, making it ready for contraction.
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