Health
Effects of Smoking
Cigarette
smoking has disastrous consequences: It damages just about every organ of the
body and leads to the general deterioration of the smoker's health. The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that cigarette smoking is
responsible for nearly one of every five deaths in the United States, or about
438,000 deaths every year. Cigarette smoking is deadlier on an annual basis
than HIV/AIDS, motor vehicle crashes, drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, and
murder combined. If we can make a change in the habits of smokers, we
can make the environment healthier.
Cancer
was one of the first diseases that researchers linked to cigarette smoking, and
it continues to be smoking's most notorious health effect. Cigarette smoking
and tobacco use causes about one-third of all cancer deaths in the United
States.
Lung
cancer is most closely linked to cigarette smoking. Smoking causes nearly all
lung cancer deaths in America, about 90 percent of male deaths and 80 percent
of female deaths. The chances that a male smoker will die of lung cancer is 23
times that of someone who's never smoked, while women who smoke run a risk 13
times greater than non-smokers.
But
lung cancer is far from the only form of cancer attributable to cigarette smoking.
Researchers have also linked smoking to cancers of the bladder, larynx, mouth,
throat, esophagus, pancreas, stomach, kidney, and cervix. Smoking also is a
known cause of some forms of leukimia. If
we can stop it, we do not have cancer and other deadly diseases.
Breathing in cigarette smoke is terribly harmful to the
lungs. The damage starts with the first puff and continues until the smoker
quits. About 9 out of 10 deaths from lung diseases are caused by smoking. A
cigarette smoker's risk of dying from a chronic obstructive lung disease like
chronic bronchitis or emphysema is 10 times that of non-smokers. If we
had paid more attention to the cause, we could suppressed the number 9 out of
10 lung disease deaths caused by smoking.
Chronic bronchitis occurs when cigarette smoke prompts the
airways to produce too much protective mucus. The smoker develops a chronic
cough to clear their airways of the mucus so they can breathe. Eventually, the
airways swell and become blocked by scar tissue and mucus. The smoker with
bronchitis has a higher risk of contracting pneumonia and other infections.
Emphysema occurs as cigarette smoke destroys the tiny air
sacs inside the lungs that allow oxygen to be diffused into the bloodstream.
The process destroys the smoker's ability to draw breath, eventually making
them gasp and struggle for air. If they noticed the impact of
cigarettes, they would feel a loss with their health.
Smoking also affects the heart and the circulatory system,
and has been linked to coronary heart disease, the number one killer in the
United States. Cigarette smokers are as much as four times more likely to be
diagnosed with coronary heart disease than non-smokers, and are twice as likely
to suffer strokes. Cigarette smoking's effects are widespread and include
damage to skin, eyes, and mouth. If smokers cared about their skin,
eyes and mouth they would get healthy skin, clear eyes and bright lips.
Cigarette smoking can harm your health even if you're not a
smoker. Exposure to secondhand smoke is believed to cause the lung cancer or
heart disease deaths of about 49,000 non-smokers every year. Nonsmokers who are
exposed to secondhand smoke in their homes or workplaces have a 25 to 30
percent increase in their heart disease risk and a 20 to 30 percent increase in
their lung cancer risk. Children whose parents or caregivers smoke have an
increased risk of asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, coughing, wheezing, and ear
infections. Babies of smokers have a higher risk of sudden infant death
syndrome, or SIDS. If smokers had respected the environment, the
passive rate of passive smokers could declined.
Although the health consequences of smoking are dire, it's
important to remember that you can take control of your health by quitting.
Once you give up cigarettes your body can begin to repair some of the damage
smoking has caused.
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