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What does smoking do to you?
The harmful effects of smoking include: .
Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world diefrom diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS. .
One i…n two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half ofthese deaths will occur in middle age. .
Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers. .
The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigaretteyou smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure,straining your heart and blood vessels. .
This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your bloodflow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers endup having their limbs amputated. .
Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer.A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in ayear. .
Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokersusually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer,dragging the tar deeper into their lungs. .
Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue ofoxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart, workharder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into yourlungs. .
Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain ofsmoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering.Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People withemphysema often get bronchitis again and again and suffer lung andheart failure. .
Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancerthan non-smokers. .
Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokersthan non-smokers. .
Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels,which leads to heart attack. .
Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heartdisease. .
In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart diseaseare due to smoking. .
Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of lowbirth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatalmortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetaltobacco syndrome. .
It also causes wrinkles, coughing, wheezing, reddening ofskin. (MORE)
