研究發現 喝紅酒能夠減少吸菸的傷害

Smoking cigarettes is bad for you. But if you're going to smoke anyway, medical researchers recommend that you have some red wine beforehand.

吸菸有害健康。但如果實在無法遠離菸草，醫學研究者們建議吸菸前喝點紅酒。

According to a newly published study, adequate drinking of red wine can help stave off some of the immediate damage that smoking does to your vascular system.

根據一項最新公佈的研究，適量攝入紅酒可以幫助延緩吸菸對血管系統造成的直接傷害。

In the study, researchers looked at the biochemical effects of smoking on 20 healthy nonsmokers.

在這項研究中，研究人員觀察了香菸對於20名身體健康的非菸民的生化影響。

The researchers found that wine drinkers didn't suffer the changes in their vascular systems that generally are caused by smoking, such as inflammation and cell damage.

研究人員發現，喝紅酒的人的血管系統中不會出現炎症或細胞破損等這類通常而言由吸菸引起的變化。

That may be because red wine stimulates the formation of chemicals in the bloodstream that improve cellular function in coronary arteries.

這可能是因爲紅酒刺激血液中的化學物質的形成，從而改變了冠狀動脈的細胞功能。

Additionally, drinking wine before smoking also reduced harm done to the telomeres, the protective caps on the cells' chromosomes.

此外，煙前飲酒還能減少對端粒的傷害。端粒位於細胞染色體末端，負責保護染色體。

The researchers found that in subjects who simply smoked without drinking any wine, the telomeres' protective activity decreased by 56 percent. But the wine drinkers, in contrast, only saw a 20 percent decrease.

研究人員發現，在不喝酒的情況下，吸菸的受試者端粒的保護活性下降了56%。但相比之下，喝葡萄酒的人只下降了20%。

University of Saarland researcher Dr. Viktoria Schwartz, the study's lead investigator, said in a press release that the study "adds to the present evidence that the proinflammatory effects in nonsmokers with 'occasional lifestyle smoking' could be prevented by red wine consumption."

薩爾蘭大學的研究員維多利亞·施瓦茲博士是這項研究的首席研究員，他在一次新聞發佈會上稱，這項研究“有利於證明非吸菸者偶爾吸菸對生活方式的影響，可以通過喝紅酒來預防。”

While the study is good news of sorts for healthy people who smoke once in a while, it's unclear whether red wine provides similar protection to the elderly, the ill, or people who are frequent smokers.

雖然這項研究對於健康人羣來說是一個好消息，但是紅酒是否能爲老年人、病人或者經常吸菸的人提供類似的保護尚不清楚。