Effects of Smoking on health

 Effects of Smoking on health

What are the health effects of smoking?

There's no way around it; smoking is bad for your health. It harms nearly every organ of the body, some that you would not expect. Cigarette smoking causes nearly one in five deaths in the United States. It can also cause many other cancers and health problems. These include:

• Cancers, including lung and oral cancers
• Lung diseases, such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Damage to and thickening of blood vessels, which causes high blood pressure
• Blood clots and stroke
• Vision problems, such as cataracts and macular degeneration (AMD)

Women who smoke pregnant have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problem. Their babies are also at higher risk of dying of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Smoking also causes addiction to nicotine, a stimulant drug that is in tobacco. Nicotine addiction makes it much harder for people to quit smoking.

Stopping smoking is one of the best things you will ever do for your health.

When you stop, you give your lungs the chance to repair and you will be able to breathe easier. There are lots of other benefits too – and they start almost immediately.

It's never too late to quit. Let's do this!

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Cigarette smoking speeds up the production of free radicals in your body. These free radicals are what causes damage to cells that can eventually lead to cancer as well as other diseases. Yet even without smoking our bodies are exposed to free radicals every day that are generated by both toxins in our environment and the normal metabolic processes that are used to digest the food we eat.