THE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING ON PLASMA MDA AND TAC IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Cigarette smoke contains 4,720 toxic and mutagenic substances such as carbon monoxide, aromatic hydrocarbons and nicotine. Smoking has always been considered one of the main causes of oxidative stress. Because of smoking, several free radicals are produced in the body that can damage vital macromolecules such as proteins and lipids. In recent years, total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) has been considered as the most important factors of oxidative stress by researchers. In this study, which was conducted as a comparative study 15 smoker university students who smoke at least one year were considered as treatment group and 15 nonsmoker university students were selected as a control group, all with no history of illness and medication and weighing 70 to 75 kg. The results of the present study showed that smoking does not cause significant changes in the parameters of the understudied population.