Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

Due to the narrowing of these arteries, there will be blood clots and thus the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Common cardiovascular diseases are peripheral vascular disease, coronary thrombosis, coronary heart diseases, cerebral thrombosis and cerebrovascular diseases like stroke.

The lining of blood vessels are damaged, this affects the level of fats in the bloodstreams, the risks of atheroma are increased; this is the major source of stroke, aneurysms and heart diseases. Additionally, smoking causes mouth ulcerations.

Smoking has been associated with sexual problems, from performance in sex to infertility. Further smoking increases the risk of high blood pressure. Pale skin and more wrinkles are caused due to decrease in vitamin A levels, smokers have a lower supply of blood to the skin.

During pregnancy, it is advisable not to smoke since it heightens the risk of miscarriage, complications such as bleeding, ectopic pregnancy, premature birth and detachment of placenta. Also still births, low birth weight or congenital defects such as cleft palate. 

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Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

The lungs decline at a faster rate, 3 times in fact in smokers than normal rate. Breathlessness starts due to the lungs dysfunction.

Cancer: Smokers are more likely to get cancer; cancer of the lungs, throat, gullet and mouth is caused by Carcinogen that is present in tobacco smoke. It is approximated that 90% of lung cancer cases are associated with smoking.

Other cancer diseases associated with smoking is cancer of the bladder, pancreatic, kidneys and esophagus, cervical cancer is more prevalent in female smokers.

Cardiovascular Diseases: These are diseases of the heart, the blood vessels, including veins and arteries. Major causes of smoke related deaths fall in this category. As it had earlier been established that nicotine increases the cholesterol levels in the blood, these cholesterol and other fats are deposited in the arteries. The arteries therefore become rigid, narrow or blocked.

Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

Road accidents are most likely to occur when a smoker is driving due to slow reflexes and lack of alertness. If anti-smoking campaigns are not done worldwide, it is predicted that 1 billion people will die this century due to smoking related complications.

Smoking is one of the major death causes in the world because of the health complications associated with it. According to WHO-World Health Organization- one person dies every 8 seconds due to smoking; of which it is basically translated to 5 million annually. Some of the disease caused by smoking are:

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): This is a group of health conditions that blocks airflow and thus one will have difficulty in breathing. The COPD causes health dysfunctions like chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Emphysema is when one has breathlessness because alveoli or air sacs have been damaged. Chronic bronchitis leads to frequent coughing with a lot of mucus. Smoking is 80% responsible for about 80% of COPD cases. 

Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

The carbon dioxide from smoking a cigarette is a key factor for greenhouse effect.

The interesting fact is, Hydrogen cyanide is present in cigarette smoke. This compound was used during World War 2 as a weapon of mass destruction; A powerful bomb can be made with Hydrogen cyanide

A cigarette smoke leads to the excessive exposure to compound called ‘benzene’. The compound benzene is one of the major causes of acute myeloid leukemia. In a country like United States, 90 percent of benzene exposures are due to cigarettes. Even radioactive elements lead (Pb) and even a polonium is found in cigarette smoke in quite low levels.

Around the world approximately 80,000 to 100,000 (below 20) smokes cigarettes on a daily basis. If you calculate in rough figure then one in every four teenagers aged 12 to 18 smoke cigarettes. This is quite alarming situation. The smokers number shall raise every year if this situation goes on.

Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

A piece of cigarette contains approximately 5 to 10 milligrams of nicotine. And in an average cigar the nicotine content is 100 to 200 milligrams, but others have as high as 400 milligrams of nicotine which is quite hazardous to human life.

It is always safe to see the nicotine level marked in the cigarette pack. It is advisable not to smoke but even if you smoke try to smoke cigarette which has low nicotine level. In many developing countries, cigarette manufacture never put nicotine level which is not good for smokers.

Do you know that four or five piece of cigarettes have enough nicotine which can kill an average adult if the same nicotine is ingested/eaten whole.

Now you must wonder why people don’t die instantly if it has so much nicotine. The thing is, when people smoker approximately one to two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette is taken in the body, the remainder is burned off.

Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

Let’s get back to the cigarette content again so that we know what exactly it is made of. An average cigarette do have a cigarette filters. Whenever you examine the cigarette content, it looks like a cotton piece. But in fact, essentially they are made of thin plastic fibers which are called as cellulose acetate.

The material ‘cellulose acetate’ is one of the material that take too many years to decompose. It takes up to 18 months to 10 years to decompose. This means, it is one of the thing that is creating pollution all over the world just like an average plastic do.

Around the globe, it has been estimated that more than trillions of filters containing cellulose acetate that are filled with very harmful toxic chemicals are discarded or thrown out as a waste which do very much harmful effect to the environment.

In nutshell, cigarette waste is one of the thing that is key factor for global pollution.

Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

Annually, more than 5 trillion cigarettes are manufactured and sold.

Do you know that about 80% and 90% of lung cancer in women and men respectively around the world is caused by cigarette smoking. Even a cigarette smoking affects a child who has never smoked but his/her smoked which she was pregnant. A tiny child born of an average smoking mother will have a heart beat rate which is faster by 30% than the child who mother didn’t smoked.

That means a cigarette do affect a child if his/her mother smoked when he/she was in womb.

Now let us talk about the life expectancy (expected years of life a person lives) of smokers. An average smoker’s life expectancy is lessened by 8-10 years from the actual years he/she would live if he were not a smoker.

An average 10 to 15 minutes of life is lessened of the average smoker for every cigarette he smokers every moment.