These are the diseases cause by smoking
Every year hundreds
of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking
KILLS.
One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of
these deaths will occur in middle age.
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
amputated.
amputated.
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 for example 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
