Title: Smoking is not Good for Health
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Smoking -
- Ways it affects your health!
2Smoking is not Good for Health
- We all know that smoking is not good for health,
but still most people are addicted to it and find
it hard to quit. Tobacco use is the single
largest cause of preventable death globally. - Nicotine in tobacco also makes it hard for
people, especially smokers to give up. The
prolonged use of tobacco increases the risk of
developing various health problems.
3How Smoking Affects
- Here are some of the most gruesome diseases
caused by smoking and other tobacco products
4Diabetes
- Because of smoking, the risk of developing
diabetes is greater as tobacco use increase blood
sugar levels and lead to insulin resistance.
Smoking can be even more hazardous for people
with diabetes as it increases the risk of
complications including heart disease, kidney
damage, blindness, rheumatoid arthritis, nerve
damage.
5Cancer
- Smoking causes greater risk of cancer and can
lead to different types of the deadly disease
with the most prominent one being lung cancer.
6Cardiovascular Diseases Pregnancy
- Smoking also increases the risk of cardiovascular
diseases heart, stroke and blood vessel disease.
It is said that smoking causes 1 of every 3
deaths from CVD.
- Woman should avoid smoking as it reduces the
chance of getting pregnant. Smoking during
pregnancy have a higher risk of complications
such as bleeding, abortion, miscarriage,
premature delivery of baby, stillbirth,
abnormalities of the placenta. - Children whose mothers smoke while pregnant or
who are exposed to second hand smoke after birth
develop weaker lungs.
7Respiratory Disease
Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your
airways and the small air sacs (alveoli) found in
your lungs. Lung diseases caused by smoking
include COPD, which includes emphysema and
chronic bronchitis.
Causes of COPD
In the clear majority of cases, the lung damage
that leads to COPD is caused by long-term
cigarette smoking. Other irritants can cause
COPD, including cigar smoke, second hand smoke,
pipe smoke, air pollution and workplace exposure
to dust, smoke and fumes.