What Can Smoking Cause?

Smoking has many bad effects on health.
# The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
# Smoking causes Lung cancer which is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
# Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
# Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.
# Smoking also is resposible for other cancer in the body.
Because of all these reasons It is also known as "slilent killer"..

Smoking reduces the life expectancy by seven to eight years. The number of people who die from smoking exceeds far more than AIDS, accidents and drug addiction. Smokers have increased risk of cataracts. Smoking leaves acid like taste in the mouth that causes ulcers. Passive smoking is also equally dangerous.

It won't be wrong to say that smoking is one of the leading causes of cancer in the world. According one study nearly half a million people die every year due to smoking related cancers. Smoking is not only harmful for respiratory system but, for almost every organ of the body and also lead to the deterioration of the one's quality of life. Around 90% of lung cancers in the world are due to tobacco smoking in the form of cigarette, cigars, hookahs etc. The other types of cancer which can be caused due to smoking are cancer of mouth, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, cervical, bladder, kidney, stomach, pancreas, bowel and ovarian cancer. Excessive smoking can lead to impotency in both the genders. It can also cause acute myeloid leukemia and can be one of the risk factor for several heart diseases. All together smoking effects ones physical as well as mental wellbeing.