Cause And Effect Of Smoking Essay

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    negative effects caused by smoking, they usually associate it with breathing problems and lung cancer. It has been proven that smoking is also a major cause of heart disease for men and women. The Surgeon General’s Warning states “Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy.” It has also been labeled as the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States. With around 20 percent of deaths related to heart disease being caused from smoking, it is

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    people over 60 can do to make aging a healthier process is to avoid smoking. Smoking on average, decreases a person’s life span by 14 years. Smoking is a leading cause of lung cancer (Aldwin & Gilmer, 2013). It is never to late for someone to stop smoking. With smoking cessation, the results are immediate. Those who quit smoking generally experience improvements in breathing and control of high blood pressure. Cessation of smoking brings a rapid reduction in risk of stroke and myocardial infarction

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    As a matter of fact smoking hurts every part of your body. It is responsible for 87% of lung cancer. Smoking is also responsible for many other cancers. Smoking will also cause heart disease. (Smoking) Other diseases caused by smoking are diseases like diabetes. Smoking can cause bones to be weak and easy to break. Smoking can cause vision loss as well (Be Tobacco Free). Bones are weakened and become brittle due to smoking. This is dangerous as it leads to osteoporosis and broken bones. Plaque builds

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    changes so will your entire life… QUIT SMOKING Tobacco smoking is responsible for the deaths of approximately five million people each year, according to the World Health Organization, it is dangerous to your health, Regardless of the way you smoke it. Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients, when they burn, they generate more than 7,000 chemicals. Many of those chemicals are poisonous and don’t just affect your lungs, they can affect your entire body. Stopping smoking is difficult for two reasons: 1

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    Now we know the most lifesaving way to prevent this is to quit smoking, but did you know people who are exposed to second hand smoking can also get lung cancer, even though a person quit smoking it may have impacted, the cigarette smoke, into someone else’s body. Cigarette smoke is full of cancer-causing material, called carcinogens, this changes the lung tissue right away. Fundamentally, the human body may be able to restore the damage. With each repeated vulnerability, normal cells that line the

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    Smoking, a practice of inhaling and exhaling smoke from burning tobacco, is a problem that is notorious for causing the death of more than 7 million people every year, and around 890,000 of those people are non-smokers that were exposed to second-hand smoke (World Health Organization). According to “Your Health Today: Choices in a Changing Society,” smoking causes cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases because of the content of approximately 600 chemical ingredients

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    Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.1 More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking. For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness. Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases

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    Smoking via a cigarette is a preventable habit that people develop when they become stressed, feel the need for social acceptance or wanting a satisfaction release of hormones. Cigarettes contain nicotine; a highly addictive group of chemicals that when inhaled spread through the body via the lymphatic system. Smoking has both internal and external repercussions including a depletion in oxygen levels and gangrene respectively. Smoking has been directly related to many types of cancers and ailments

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    Smoking is very dangerous, and it has many effects on the health of people. The correlation between smoking and numerous diseases is very high. Throughout the paper, numerous effects are discussed. The change that smoking causes in people’s moods can lead to addiction. Addiction leads to an increased intake of chemicals. The chemicals that are in cigarettes are linked to numerous diseases. The toxic chemicals, such as arsenic and cyanide, are not healthy to ingest. They can potentially lead to atherosclerosis

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    Smoking is a habit of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or a drug. Smoking cigarettes is the inhalation of the smoke of burned tobacco that may occur occasionally or habitually because of a physical addiction to some chemicals, primarily nicotine. It causes many different diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, stomach cancer etc. Tabaco like many other drugs contains over 60 known cancer-causing chemicals

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