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Major diseases caused by smoking
Every cigarette you smoke contains thousands -- yes, about 4,000 -- of chemicals and most of them are harmful
for the body: methanol, cyanide, formaldehyde, acetylene, ammonia and many, many other. If you're a smoker,
you really inhale this chemicals.
The most dangerous is nicotine. Nicotine is actually a deadly toxin. If a single pinhead-sized drop of pure
liquid nicotine was put into your bloodstream, it would be fatal. Nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol
levels in human body. Every smoker gets a very little amount of nicotine with every smoked cigarette.
The same dangerous are tar a substance that causes cancer and carbon monoxide who reduces the oxygen in the body.
Smoking affects life expectancy
Many studies have shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven to eight years.
- As a result of smoking about 300 people die every day in the UK, most of them young smokers
- The total number of people up to 70 who die from smoking-related diseases in the UK, exceeds the total
figure for deaths caused by serious events like breast cancer, AIDS, traffic accidents and drug addiction.
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking.
Nicotine increases cholesterol levels in your body. When cholesterol and other fats make deposits in the arteries,
leaving them narrow, blocked or rigid, blood clots are likely to form.
The hardening and narrowing process in arteries is accelerated by smoking and blood clots are two to four times
more likely.
By consequence smokers tend to get coronary thrombosis 10 years earlier than non-smokers.
Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers.
By now, most people are well aware that smoking causes lung cancer. Cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and chewing tobacco kill more
than 434,000 Americans each year accounting for one out of five premature deaths in this country.
The link between smoking and risk of lung cancer is clear. Smoking has officially been recognized as a cause of lung
cancer. The more cigarettes you smoke in a day, and the longer you've smoked, the higher the risk.
Other types of cancer that are more common in smokers are:
- mouth cancer
- bladder cancer
- cancer of the oesophagus
- cancer of the kidneys
- cancer of the pancreas
- cervical cancer
Smokers are more likely to get chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Because we speak about a breath disease, the influence of smoking cristal clear. Many studies have shown that
smoking is responsible for 80 per cent of chronic obstructive pulmonary cases.
This disease typically starts between the ages of 35 and 45 when lung function naturally decline. Smoke gets
lungs into abrupt declining process. As the condition progresses, severe breathing problems can require medical and
hospital attention. The final stage is death from slow and progressive breathlessness.
Smoking and impotence.
The British Medical Association estimates that up to 120,000 men have ED because of smoking.
For men in between 30 and 40, smoking increases the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) by about 50 per cent.
As smoking can damage blood vessels is clear that erection process might be degenerate.
NOTE: The Information on this site is provided for information only,
and is not meant to substitute for the advice of your own physician or other medical professional.
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