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Smoking Cigarettes And Crohn's Disease

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There is one thing in this world that you should not do and it is smoking cigarettes. They are really bad for you. What pleasure do you really get from smoking cigarettes. All they do is make your lungs black and nasty. Every drag you take you are taking time off you life. One little drag is filled with over four thousand chemicals. Forty three of those chemicals cause cancer. If your gonna smoke then why don't you mix four thousand different chemicals together and drink it. That is basically what you're doing when you smoke a cigarette. If you are going to smoke then why don't you cut out your lungs and throw them in the trash. Cigarettes don't only ruin your lungs. Factors like high blood pressure can stretch out the arteries and cause scarring. …show more content…

Broadly speaking, smoking worsens your health. But for some people who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), smoking seems to relieve their worst symptoms. IBD refers to a handful of chronic gut diseases. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, the two most-common forms of IBD, both result when a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks that person’s own gut. But while smoking cigarettes has exacerbates Crohn’s disease, it seems to alleviate ulcerative colitis. And yet, studies have observed that the more people smoke, the less likely they are to develop Parkinson’s disease. This inverse correlation was first observed in the 1960s by epidemiologist Harold Kahn. When he analyzed the health insurance records of nearly 300,000 veterans, Kahn noticed that smokers who had served in the US military between 1917 and 1940 were three times less likely than nonsmokers to have later died of Parkinson’s disease Smoking can have many health benefits. You could argue that it is good for you and that is what this paragraph is about. There are some chemicals in cigarettes that can prevent many deadly diseases but you are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than someone who does not smoke. In a way cigarettes kind of balance out disease. It prevents some diseases and cause some. No matter what cigarettes can still kill you even if they prevent some diseases. In a way you should smoke and in a way you should not. I believe you should smoke to save yourself from deadly diseases. If you can prevent yourself from dying than you should do it. Cigarettes can be good if you are not a heavy smoker. By heavy i mean if you smoke ten packs a day then you are just killing yourself. One a day is not bad and will prevent many deadly disease. The most fascinating and widely recognized health benefit of smoking is its ability to seemingly alleviate symptoms of mental illnesses including anxiety and schizophrenia. According to an article published

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