There is no doubt that smoking damage our body and condition can get even worst that nobody can ever imagined. There are approximately 4000 chemicals in cigarettes which are beyond of our imagination and hundreds of which are toxic that travel throughout the body, causing damage in many different ways. The ingredients in cigarettes affect how long you will live if you are a smoke. It damages your body starting from the internal functioning of organs to the efficiency of the body's immune system. There are about 300 people who die every day in the UK as a result of smoking and many of them are young smokers. So, before killing yourself by this smoking habit, it is better to quit!Here is the list of harmful effects of smoking on human body:
- Cardiovascular disease: It is the main cause of death as a result of smoking. Smoking speed up the hardening and narrowing process in your arteries due to which blood clots are two to four times more likely. There are many types of Cardiovascular disease:
- Coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in the arteries supplying the heart that can lead to a heart attacka. This is often caused by the smoking (around 30%).
- Cerebral thrombosis: this can lead to paralysis and even collapse of vessels because the vessels to the brain can become blocked.
- High blood pressure or kidney failure can be caused if the kidney arteries are affected.
- Gangrene and amputation can be caused due to the blockage to the vascular supply to the legs.
- Cancer: Smoking is the cause of 85% of all cases of lung cancer. Smoking and smokeless tobacco also cause between 60% and 93% of cancers of the throat, mouth and is true because lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, hardly ever affect non-smokers. The more cigarettes you lit up in a day, the higher you are in risk of leukaemia and cancers of the kidney, stomach, bladder, and pancreas. Near about 30% of cervical cancers have been caused by both active and passive smoking.
- Female infertility and pregnancy: Studies have shown that women who do smoking have a higher risk to their reproductive health and if they smoke during pregnancy then their unborn child will also be on risk . Smoking cause many risk like:
- Greater risk for infertility in women.
- Greater risk for ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage.
- Greater risk for stillbirth, prematurity, and low-birth weight.
- COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a term which is used for a group of conditions that block airflow and make breathing very difficult and which starts at the age of 35 and 45 when lung function starts to decline anyway.. The major 2 conditions are:
- Emphysema – It is the term used for breathlessness caused by damage to the air sacs.
- Chronic bronchitis – coughing with a lot of mucus that remain continues for at least three months.
- Hypertension can be caused by the smoking as it raises the blood pressure and hypertension is the major risk factor for heart attacks and stroke.
- Asthma: smoking can make situation more terrible in case of asthma and has adverse effects on asthma medication as it worsens the inflammation of the airways that the medicines try to ease.
- The chain smoker is prone to get macular degeneration as a result of which eyesight can be gradually lost.
- Impotence: Smoking can even cause the impotence by damaging the blood vessels and cause them to degenerate - nicotine narrows those arteries that lead to the penis that reduce blood flow and the pressure of blood in the penis. Therefore, increasing the risk of erectile dysfunctio (ED) by about 50 per cent.
- Smokers run an increased risk of cataracts and also stain your teeth and gums.
- Smoking increases the development of ulcers and also causes an acid taste in the mouth.
- Smoking has adverse effects on bones and joints. It impairs the formation of new bone and those women who smoke daily, are at high risk for osteoporosis.
- Smokers face more trouble recovering from spinal surgery.
- Postmenopausal women who smoke have 17% greater risk for hip fracture at age 60, a 41% greater risk at 70, and a 100% greater risk at age 90, if they still continue the smoking.
- Smoking causes swollen gums, bad breath and teeth to fall out by increasing the risk of periodontal disease.
- People who smoke have paler skin and more wrinkles than a non-smoker. It is due to the fact that smoking reduces the blood supply to the skin and lowers levels of vitamin A. Therefore, Smoking is not only affects your body also your looks!
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