Effects of Smoking on Human Health

The effects of smoking on human health have been known since the 1940’s. 60 years later the list of diseases associated with smoking is enormous and ever growing. Everyone knows the risks involved but yet that does not stop those of us who continue to light up everyday. The most disastrous health effect of smoking is that it can (and in most cases will) kill you. The most common lethal health effects of smoking, are cancer and cardiovascular disease

Cancer
Smoking is strongly linked to a number of different types of cancer which threaten multiple organs (pancreas, kidney, bladder to name a few). 30% of all cancer deaths worldwide are thought to be a direct result of tobacco smoking. The most common form of cancer caused by smoking is lung cancer. Smokers are 22 times more likely to get lung cancer than non-smokers. This disease hardly existed before smoking. Those with lung cancer usually don’t live longer than 5 years after being diagnosed.

Cardiovascular Disease
The health effects of smoking include the increased the risk of stroke (twice as likely) plus heart and artery disease (2-4 times as likely). This is due to the fact smoking causes an increase in blood pressure, decreases exercise tolerance, damages blood vessels and increases clotting of blood. All of this puts enormous stress on the heart and sooner or later this pressure will become too much and can lead to fatal consequences.

Non-lethal health effects of smoking
While not all effects of smoking are life threatening, they can still cause years of suffering and pain. Some common non-lethal effects of smoking include;

• Emphysema (85% of sufferers smoke)
• Angina (20 x the risk)
• Speeds up the aging process
• Neck, Back and muscle pains
• Osteoporosis
• Erectile dysfunction/Impotence
• Pneumonia
• Psoriasis (2 x risk)
• Type 2 Diabetes (non-insulin dependent)
• Hearing loss
• Stomach ulcers
• Influenza
• Tooth decay
• Tuberculosis

The effects of smoking listed above are but a few examples from an enormous list. It is not matter of if you will be effected by any of these if you continue to smoke; it is a matter of which ones will effect you, how many will effect you and when will smoking kill you.

The disastrous health effects of smoking are obvious. Do you want to quit and give yourself the chance of living a long, happy, healthy life, or do you want to keep smoking and live a short, unhealthy life full of sickness, pain and disease.

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