Alcohol and tobacco have been around for thousands of years. Around 2,000 years ago tobacco began to be chewed and smoked during cultural or religious ceremonies and events. Cigarette making machines were not developed until the latter half of the 1800s. The first alcoholic beverage to gain popularity was Mead, a fermented drink made from honey and water. Mead was created in Greece. The Greek warned that it is okay to drink as long as it is not an excessive amount. Although smoking and drinking have become popular habits for people over the years they can have a negative impact on the human body.
More than 20 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking.
Cigarettes can cause cancer, heart disease, strokes, lung diseases, diabetes, and COPD
(Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Smoking increases the risk of problems with the immune system, including Rheumatoid Arthritis and Tuberculosis. Most people think that cigarettes only damage your lungs but they affect entire cardiovascular system.
Smoking has a huge impact on your energy levels. Smokers have a lower lung capacity than non-smokers which means that they get less oxygen in their lungs and that causes them to get less oxygen to the brain, muscles, and other bodily systems. Hair is also affected by the nicotine that is found in cigarettes. A study found that it increases hair loss and graying.
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The ingredient in cigarettes that makes them so harmful is nicotine. Nicotine
poor vision, anxiety and irritability, cold/flu, lung cancer, constricted blood vessels, high cholesterol, heart disease, stained teeth, smelly hair, diabetes, erectile dysfunction, early menopause, problems with pregnancy, appetite suppressant etc.(“The Effects of Smoking”). There is a claim that smoking helps calm people, but the scientific fact is that it is an emotional stimulant and causes one to be irritable and anxious.
When I think of smoking the first thing that comes to my mind is lung cancer. I could say with confidence that mostly any person that is asked about tobacco know the harm it causes to the human body or at least one of the dangers of smoking. This topic is very interesting to me because i simply don 't understand why a person becomes a frequent smoker while knowing all the harm one cigarette can do to them and others around them. Second hand smoking is also a big issue in our country because of all the smoking done in outside areas. Even if a person doesn 't smoke and is the healthiest person in the world, being around another person/people for a long time who smoke(s) frequently can cause you be very open to second hand smoke and can also give you all the same health problems a first hand smoker deals with.
Cigarette smoke has extreme health consequences. It has been found that for both sexes, smoking increases the risk of dying from heart disease and from all causes; and for women, it increases the likelihood of dying from lung cancer (Bjartveit and Tverdal 2005). Cigarette smoking habits also
·Dry, unhealthy, older-looking, faster-aging skin, caused by poor circulation and low oxygen levels in the blood. ·Unattractive, tobacco-stained hands. ·Yellowish, brownish tobacco-stained teeth, gum disease and bad breath. ·A wardrobe, a house and a car that smell of tobacco smoke, all the time.
Individuals who consume tobacco products or who are often in the vicinity of second-hand smoke have an increased risk getting cancer as tobacco and second-hand smoke contains many substances that damage DNA.
While smoking causes many diseases in the heart it also affects the lungs. Every time someone lights up a cigarette they’re increasing their probability of procuring pneumonia, emphysema, lungs cancer, or chronic bronchitis pulmonary disease (COPD). Sadly Eighty-four percent of lung cancer deaths are smokers and eighty-three percent of COPD
Smoking also harms the non-smoker, not just the smoker. Non-smoking people have the same lung damage
When you start smoking since the very first time, the chemicals inhaled can have an immediate effect in the body. The smoke contains a chemical called carbon monoxide that transfers to the blood instead of oxygen. As a result, the blood cells suffer from oxygen making harder to breathe especially while exercising. It can also be very harmful to smoke during pregnancy due to the fact that a developing baby can suffer from breathing which can also lead to other dysfunctions in the process of the formation. The smoke of cigarettes contains millions of chemicals that cause serious damage to the tissue of the breathing system. There is clear evidence from scientist who state that tobacco smoke increase the risk of suffering many dangerous and fatal
Cigarettes induce chronic inflammation in the body, which is why they are the leading cause of lung cancer. Roughly 80-90% of all cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking. So in other
Smoking can hurt your cell growth. Every time you take a hit of a cigarette it is doing damage to your DNA. One third of people that die from cancer is caused by tobacco. If you only smoke a few
Nicotine is one of the main chemicals that acts on a smokers body because acts as adrenergic agonist which has similar functions to the other neurotransmitters such as adrenaline in the body where it stimulates the central nervous system when absorbed in the body, smoking causes an acute increase in blood pressure and heart rate, Nicotine also stimulates the release of catecholamine release which is responsible for vasoconstriction of blood vessels in the body on which slows down the oxygen redistribution by hindering blood flow and increase systolic pressure (Green et al.,1986). Smoking also causes the degeneration of the alveoli in the lungs which results in hypoxia where reduced oxygen gas exchange occurs in the red blood cells because of the reduced amount of alveoli available to do the gas exchange one of the physiological effects of this is that smokers have a larger time to heal there bodies because oxygen is one of the vital molecules needed to stimulate metabolic activity in the mitochondria of the cells that keeps it from functioning and with decrease oxygen exchange from lungs to blood the body is unable to heal itself faster (El-Zawawy et al., 2006). (194
Smoking kills thousands of people worldwide due to the diseases it causes. Regarding the article “Why is smoking bad for you?”, “Smoking is the largest cause of preventable death in the world” (Nordqvist). Smoking causes many types of cancers such as kidney, mouth and etc. It raises cancer risks due to the thousands of toxic compounds cigarette smoke contains. The smoke contains carbon monoxide which is a poisonous gas. The bloodstream can not determine the difference between oxygen and carbon monoxide and absorbs it in. Cigarette smoking can also cause cardiovascular disease, making heart attacks more prone to a body.
Tobacco can affect by the body because you are practically killing yourself they all give you different kinds of
Taking medications for various illnesses or diseases which cause premature hair loss as a side effect is another common phenomenon. Some treatment methods or medicines for heart diseases, cancer, high blood pressure, gout and many other diseases will often trigger excessive hair loss. Thyroid diseases can also cause this problem. Increased body heat and hormonal imbalances are the two major reasons in this
The tar, which is found in the cigarette smoke, irritates the air passage and Carbon dioxide then reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen through the bloodstream. I predict that the non-smokers heart rate should be smaller during exercise as they have a healthier more effective heart. Oxygen is easily pumped around the body this reduces the amount of work that the heart has to do therefore decreasing the pulse rate. Plan: = ==