MEDICAL ISSUES |
We've heard for decades how smoking is bad for your health, so the information presented hear is probably at least familiar to you. Many have relatives that have become seriously ill or even died from smoking related issues. One of or goals here at Smoke2000 is to keep smokers on this earth longer through use of this smoking alternative. The harmful health effects of smoking cigarettes presented in the list below only begin to convey the long term side effects of smoking. Quitting makes sense for many reasons but simply put: smoking is bad for one's health.
- Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases cause by smoking traditional ... Smoking KILLS.
- One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age (45-60).
- Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
- The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
amputate
- Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
- Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
- Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
- Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
- Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
- Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
- Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
- Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
- In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
- Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, and spontaneous abortion.
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| There are many photos available on countless sites with images of the physical effects of smoking on various organs, many of which are too graphic to display here. We do however, offer this one. |
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| Some of the diseases caused by smoking traditional cigarettes |
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Lung Cancer |
7 |
Throat Cancer |
| 3 |
Cancer of the Tongue |
8 |
Mouth Cancer |
| 3 |
Emphysema |
9 |
Cancer of the Lymph Nodes |
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Heart Disease |
10 |
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) |
| 5 |
Cancer of the Larynx |
11 |
Esophageal Cancer |
| 6 |
Choric Bronchitis |
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This is not a complete list of chemicals contained in traditional cigarettes, but provide examples of
chemicals many will be able to recognize. |
| Some of the toxic substances that are absorbed by a smoker with each puff... |
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Benzene Hydrocarbon obtained from coal |
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Formaldehyde a highly poisonous liquid used to preserve bodies after death |
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Ammonia Found in dry cleaing fluids and other cleanein agent |
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AcetoneFragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example, nail polish remover |
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Carbon Monoxide - poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large amount. Found in car exhaust fumes |
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Others - Arsenic (rat poison), Hydrogen Cyanide |
This is not a complete list of chemicals containd in tranditional cigarettes, but provide examples of
chemicals many will be able to recognize. |
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