The Effects of Smoking

Smoking has adverse effects on health, because smoking can damage almost every organ of the human body. Therefore, the effects of smoking can cause a variety of diseases that very much; at least there were 24 fatal diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Adverse effects of smoking to health will usually appear in a long time, over 5 years. Especially cigarette tobacco products can be shaped cigarettes, cigars, hand-rolled, using a pipe, tobacco that aspirated, or smokeless tobacco.

In the list below, will be described a wide range of diseases and body parts that can be affected by the effects of smoking. Men or women who smoke face the same bad risks that are the death. In addition, there are special risks for a woman that is the disruption of reproductive function.

Until now, not found one, a result better than smoking cigarettes. In cigarettes there are more than 4000 substances, and 2000 among these substances are substances that affect / effect and harmful to health.

Among the harmful substances are radioactive materials (polonium-201). And the materials used in the paint (acetone). Drug silverfish (naphthalene), there is also toxic to insects or DDT, washing floors are also present in cigarette or commonly referred to as ammonia , poison arsenic or poison for termites, toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) is used to execute many more convict etc.Tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine are the most hazardous substances, air has influence / negative impact on health. TAR contains about 43 ingredients that trigger the occurrence of cancer or the so-called carcinogen. Nicotine has that addictive substance. Nicotine is what makes a person difficult to quit smoking. Nicotine is also a trigger of heart disease. About 25% of heart patients caused by smoking.

Here are the diseases and health problems in the organs of the body, the effects of smoking

Cancer:

• The lungs (lung cancer)
• Oral cavity
• Pharynx
• Larynx
• Esophagus (squamous cell carcinoma)
• Esophagus (adenocarcinoma)
• Pancreas
• Urinary Bladder
• Renal pelvis
• Kidney (renal cell carcinoma)
• Stomach
• Uterine cervix
• Granulocytic cells of bone marrow (leukemia myeloid)
• Nasal cavities
• Nasal sinuses
• Liver

Respiratory System:

     * Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
     * Acute respiratory Illnesses including pneumonia
     * Premature onset of and an accelerated decline in lung function
     * All major respiratory symptoms in adults, including coughing, phlegm, wheezing & dyspnoea
     * Poor asthma control

Cardiovascular System:

     * Coronary heart disease (CHD)
     * Cerebrovascula disease
     * Aortic aneurysm
     * Peripheral artery

Other diseases:

• Gastric ulcer
• Cataract
• Periodontitis
• Duodenal ulcer
• Adverse surgical outcomes related to wound healing and respiratory complications
• Hip fracture
• Reduced fertility in females
• Crohn's disease
• Age-related macular degeneration
• Tobacco amblyopia
• Osteoporosis

Special respiratory system disorders in infants / children, whose mothers smoked:

• Impaired lung growth
• Early-onset of lung function decline
• Respiratory symptoms including coughing, phlegm, wheezing dyspnoea
• Asthma-related symptoms (wheezing)

Female Reproductive System:

• Pregnancy complications
• Preterm delivery and shortened gestation
• Restrictions on fetal growth and low birth weight
• Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

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