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major component common in cigarette smoking and carbon monoxide is nicotine,
researches carried out has been on the effects of cigarette smoking on blood
cells but no concrete work has been done on the effect of CO on blood cells.
Cigarette smoking increases the total peripheral blood leukocytes counts not
significant relation but its effect on the differential cell count in
periherial blood is largely unexplored (Bruno et al, 2000).
The result from a
study has it that at each leukocyte count there was increase in smoker as in
relation to current cigarette consuption was found to be significant (Megan et
al; 2003). Findings on the effect of smoking on white cells suggested that
there were significant higher total white cells in smokers that non-smokers
(Dodsworth et al; 1981). A study reported that there was actually no uniform
relationship between leucocytes and differentials cells and this primarily may
be as a result of the influence of current smoking behaviours exhibited by the
smokers although there are many effects of prolonged smoking on individuals
(Schwartz and Wesis; 1994).
There was also a statistically significant
(P<0.05) increase in the number of leucocytes (Apibal et al; 2000), this was
on a study on the effect of cigarette smoking on peripheral blood leucocytes
and lymphocytes.