Doctors have readily made information about the relationship between smoking, and heart disease, yet people still choose to ignore how seriously this could affect them. People still believe that the chance of something happening to them is slim to none; obviously these are the people that haven’t read or listened to the warnings.

There are thousands of different chemical compounds in a cigarette, with at least 60 of them being toxic. As these toxins float through your blood stream they accelerate the speed of which your arteries can potentially harden, causing the potential for coronary heart disease, as well as increasing your chances of suffering a heart attack, heart failure, and even sudden death.

Your body doesn’t care if you’ve smoked one pack of cigarettes, or three hundred, yet there are people that still ask if I smoke only two cigarettes a day am I still at risk? That’s like someone asking if I stand on the train tracks between 1pm and 2 pm am I still at risk of being hit by a speeding train.

Your doctor can’t give you a time limit on how long you will have to smoke before your arteries begin to clog, your body will take the course it chooses in due time. If you have a family history of heart disease you are more likely to suffer the consequences associated with smoking.

Each time you light a cigarette because you just have to have one you are affecting everyone around you. Second hand smoke affects the risk of heart disease for those around you too. Is it really worth lighting that cigarette to harm those people you care about? It’s like you are throwing them in front of the speeding train just as it goes by, they didn’t make the choice to smoke.

Women that take a oral contraceptives and smoke are at higher risks of heart disease than those that just smoke. Medications that suggest you do not smoke while taking them do so due to the increased chances of heart disease, and other symptoms. If the cigarette companies were made to list all toxins to the public people would be less likely to smoke after finding out what they will be putting into their bodies.

You may choose to put yourself at risk of heart disease due to your smoking, but you should also consider those closest to you when you next consider when and where you are going to light that next cigarette. Quitting smoking is the only way to free you from the potential health risks associated with the habit.

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