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Smoking Health Effects – Disease and Dangers
January 29th, 2009
Modern day studies are still unable to reveal all the facts regarding all smoking health effects.
Smoking is however the number one preventable cause of death and disability. About 5 million deaths in the world are connected to the use of tobacco in one way or the other every year. Heart disease tops the list. Smoking results in the hardening of the arteries and this will end up in a heart attack. There is also the increased risk of suffering a stroke.
Lung cancer is the second biggest cause of death directly resulting from tobacco use. Studies in the US show that a smoker increases his chances of death from this disease by over 20%. Other cancers are also traced to the tobacco habit and include cancer of the liver, cervix, uterus, mouth, kidney, blood, stomach, breast.
On the list are too are pulmonary and respiratory diseases that are often irreversible and fatal. Included also are emphysema and bronchitis. There is evidence that links cigarette smoking with Alzheimer and Parkinson’s disease.
Other smoking health effects are on the health of children, infants and the unborn who are as a specially vulnerable group where their parents are smokers, especially the mother. Low birth-weight, risk of miscarriage, affected child development, sudden infant death syndrome, pneumonia, bronchitis and colds can all be the direct result of second-hand smoke on children.
About 6,000 teenagers in the US pick up the smoking habit daily, and about a third of this figure turn out to be smokers in adulthood. The younger the adolescent is at the onset of smoking, the higher are his or her chances of premature death from smoking-related causes.
Did you know that there is no positive smoking health effects at all? Smoking is simply not good for you or for others.
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