What are the smoking hazards?
Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the world.
Every year around 7.1 million people in the world die from smoking, with many more living with debilitating smoking-related illnesses.
Smoking increases your risk of developing more than 50 serious health conditions.
Some may be fatal, and others can cause irreversible long-term damage to your health.
You can become ill:
- if you smoke yourself
- if people around you smoke (passive smoking)
Smoking health risks
Smoking causes around 7 out of every 10 cases of lung cancer (70%).
It also causes cancer in many other parts of the body, including the:
- mouth
- throat
- voice box (larynx)
- oesophagus (the tube between your mouth and stomach)
- bladder
- bowel
- cervix
- kidney
- liver
- stomach
- pancreas
Smoking damages your heart and your blood circulation, increasing your risk of developing conditions such as:
- coronary heart disease
- heart attack
- stroke
- peripheral vascular disease (damaged blood vessels)
- cerebrovascular disease (damaged arteries that supply blood to your brain)
Smoking also damages your lungs, leading to conditions such as:
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which incorporates bronchitis and emphysema
- pneumonia
Smoking can also worsen or prolong the symptoms of respiratory conditions such as asthma, or respiratory tract infections such as the common cold.
In men, smoking can cause impotence because it limits the blood supply to the penis.
It can also reduce the fertility of both men and women.
Health risks of passive smoking
Secondhand smoke comes from the tip of a lit cigarette and the smoke that the smoker breathes out.
Breathing in secondhand smoke, also known as passive smoking, increases your risk of getting the same health conditions as smokers.
For example, if you have never smoked but you have a spouse who smokes, your risk of developing lung cancer increases by about a quarter.
Babies and children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoke.
A child who’s exposed to passive smoke is at increased risk of developing chest infections, meningitis, a persistent cough and, if they have asthma, their symptoms will get worse.
They’re also at increased risk of cot death and an ear infection called glue ear.
Read more about passive smoking.
Health risks of smoking during pregnancy
If you smoke when you’re pregnant, you put your unborn baby’s health at risk, as well as your own.
Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of complications such as:
- miscarriage
- premature (early) birth
- a low birth weight baby
- stillbirth
My experience
I my self was a heavy smoker one day. Thanks to my faith and will to live a healthier life with my wife and kids I stopped smoking in just one day.
Test your will but with faith. You need to take it off you because it sticks like all bad habits. Change your life stile by meeting nonsmoking friends and getting away from your smoking environment. Look at your happy family and at what smoking will eventually lead to and choose.
Fill your time with your loved ones and stress relief games to stop smoking.
Share with us how you stopped smoking to encourage others and if you have problems and you don’t know how to stop smoking leave your comment to guide you.
I have been exploring for a little for any high quality articles or blog posts on this sort of space .
Exploring in Yahoo I finally stumbled upon this web site.
Studying this information So i’m satisfied to show that I’ve
an incredibly good uncanny feeling I found out exactly what I needed.
I such a lot unquestionably will make sure to do not put out of your mind
this web site and provides it a glance regularly.