Three types of myocardial necrosis have been experimentally documented to be the result of cigarette smoking action: coagulation necrosis, colliquative myocytolysis and coagulative myocytolysis. They may be the response to a direct action of nicotine and carbon monoxide on heart muscle as well as consequence of a vascular mechanisms of coronary artery harm. While the vascular pathogenic mechanism is able to induce mainly coagulative necrosis, which is the specific necrosis of the acute myocardial infarction, the toxic action of the smoking compounds develops all types of necrosis with myocardial alterations variably combined among themselves.