Smoking Health Effects – Disease and Dangers
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The World Health Organization has clearly stated that the full range and impact of smoking health effects is still unknown to research.
Nevertheless, according to WHO reports, approximately 5 million deaths a year globally have some link to the use of tobacco. The biggest preventable cause of death today is undoubtedly smoking. Heart disease and deaths from heart attacks and the incidence of strokes is are the most common outcomes of cigarette smoking
Lung cancer comes next and a smoker’s chances of dying from this cause is at least 20% higher than that of the non-smoker. The risk is also higher of suffering from cancer of the liver, stomach, blood, kidneys and several other cancers.
Then there is respiratory diseases such as emphysema and bronchitis, and other pulmonary difficulties that are often irreversible and always fatal. There is evidence that links smoking with Parkinson’s disease and also Alzheimer
Smoking health effects take their toll on children and the unborn especially where the mother is the tobacco user. Low birth-weight, sudden infant death syndrome, affected child development and many respiratory disorders can result from passive smoking in 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.
Consider this, that all smoking health effects are bad, and not one good reason is given anywhere for smoking.
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