Countdown to danger... or the terrifying speed at which cake, coffee and other treats harm your body | Mail Online

Australian scientists have reported that it takes only half an hour for a salty meal to significantly impair the arteries’ ability to pump blood around the body.

But that’s not the only bad habit that can have immediate effects on your health. We look at how quickly your vices can damage your body:

CIGARETTES: THREE SECONDS

‘The effects of inhaling cigarette smoke on the body are staggeringly quick,’ says Professor Robert West, Cancer Research UK’s director of tobacco studies.

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