The dangers of smoking

By any person of any age, smoking increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer. Even passive smoking carries the same risks.

Passive smoking exposes children to a group at high risk for respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and asthma and can affect their development, resulting in learning difficulties and known risks associated with smoke inhalation.

Smoking increases heart rate and raises blood pressure because nicotine stimulates the nervous system. Also reduces the amount of oxygen in the brain and the blood thickens, increasing the risk of blood clots, which, as already mentioned cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart attacks.

Tar deposited in the lungs of smoke clogs the arteries and damage to the air sacs causing breathing difficulties and long-term damage.

For every cigarette there are at least 4,000 chemicals and at least 60 of them are known to cause cancer. Most people think of lung cancer is caused by smoking, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. It is known that smoking causes mouth cancer, cancer of the bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix and esophagus cancer.

The average smokers want to live twelve years less than non-smokers. Their lives, so also shortens will often poverty, lung disease, heart disease and other incurable diseases.

All these risks are even worse if you have a problem or a long-term illness, such as high cholesterol, respiratory disease, heart disease or diabetes. Quitting smoking can improve and many effects of tobacco consumption and, of course, the sooner you do this, the biggest benefit you receive.