How is smoking bad for your health?

Answer 1

Smoking is the main reason of cancer. It is also harmful for other's sitting around a smoker.

Thousands of different chemicals in cigarette smoke, including formaldehyde, cadmium, nickel, arsenic contribute to the harmful effects of smoking.

The harms caused by using tobacco include diseases affecting the heart and lungs. Smoking is a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancers).

Inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke can cause lung cancer in nonsmoking adults.

Answer 2

Compared with nonsmokers, smoking is estimated to increase the risk of-

• Coronary Heart disease by 2 to 4 times
• Stroke by 2 to 4 times
• Men developing lung cancer by 23 times
• Women developing lung cancer by 13 times
• Dying from chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times.