Rauchstrasse

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As Rauchstraße in is medicine the way of tobacco smoke in the human body after taking over the mouth called.

These include the lips , the oral cavity including the palate and tongue , the throat , the larynx , the windpipe and the bronchial system including the alveoli in the lungs . Partly due to the different dwell times of tobacco smoke, a distinction is made between the upper smoke route from the lips to the larynx and the lower smoke route from the beginning of the windpipe to the lungs. In addition, due to the ingestion of components of tobacco smoke dissolved in saliva , the esophagus and the stomach are sometimes also included in the smoke route, which is then sometimes referred to as the sip-smoke route or sip-and-smoke route .

The name Rauchstrasse was coined in the 1930s by the German internist Fritz Lickint , who for many years dealt with the health risks of tobacco smoking and, among other things, described an accumulation of cancer in all organs along Rauchstrasse among smokers .

literature

  • Claus-Jürgen Estler, Harald Schmidt: Pharmacology and toxicology: for study and practice. Sixth edition. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-79-452295-8 , p. 1037
  • Knut-Olaf Haustein: Fritz Lickint (1898–1960) - A life as an educator about the dangers of tobacco. In: Suchtmed. 6 (3) / 2004. ecomed verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 249–255, ISSN  1437-5567