A recent website which i read on smoking and increased health risk ..thought to share it with you.
compared to the non smokers smoking is estimated to increase the risk of-
- coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times,1,5
- stroke by 2 to 4 times,1,6
- men developing lung cancer by 23 times,1
- women developing lung cancer by 13 times,1 and
- dying from chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times.1
Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease
- Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.1
- Cigarette smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries) and puts smokers at risk of developing peripheral vascular disease (i.e., obstruction of the large arteries in the arms and legs that can cause a range of problems from pain to tissue loss or gangrene).1,7
- Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm (i.e., a swelling or weakening of the main artery of the body—the aorta—where it runs through the abdomen).1
Smoking and Respiratory Disease
- Smoking causes lung cancer.1,2
- Smoking causes lung diseases (e.g., emphysema, bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction) by damaging the airways and alveoli (i.e., small air sacs) of the lungs.1,2
Smoking and Cancer
Smoking causes the following cancers:
1
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Bladder cancer
- Cancer of the cervix
- Cancer of the esophagus
- Kidney cancer
- Cancer of the larynx (voice box)
- Lung cancer
- Cancer of the oral cavity (mouth)
- Pancreatic cancer
- Cancer of the pharynx (throat)
- Stomach cancer
Smoking and Other Health Effects
Smoking has many adverse reproductive and early childhood effects, including increased risk for—
- infertility,
- preterm delivery,
- stillbirth,
- low birth weight, and
- sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).1,8
Smoking is associated with the following adverse health effects:8
- Postmenopausal women who smoke have lower bone density than women who never smoked.
- Women who smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than women who never smoked.
http://www.cdc.gov/
would you still love to smoke? what do you gain from it?
