Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.
When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.
As a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.
The products that are most damaging are:
The damage caused by smoking is influenced by:
On average, each cigarette shortens a smoker's life by around 11 minutes.
Of the 300 people who die every day in the UK as a result of smoking, many are comparatively young smokers.
The number of people under the age of 70 who die from smoking-related diseases exceeds the total figure for deaths caused by breast cancer,AIDS, traffic accidents and drug addiction.
Non-smokers and ex-smokers can also look forward to a healthier old age than smokers.
Major diseases caused by smokingCardiovascular diseaseCardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking.Hardening of the arteries is a process that develops over years, when cholesterol and other fats deposit in the arteries, leaving them narrow, blocked or rigid. When the arteries narrow (atherosclerosis), blood clots are likely to form.
Smoking accelerates the hardening and narrowing process in your arteries: it starts earlier and blood clots are two to four times more likely.
Cardiovasular disease can take many forms depending on which blood vessels are involved, and all of them are more common in people who smoke.
A fatal diseaseBlood clots in the heart and brain are the most common causes of sudden death.
Smokers tend to develop coronary thrombosis 10 years earlier than non-smokers, and make up 9 out of 10 heart bypass patients.
CancerSmokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.The link between smoking and lung cancer is clear.
The more cigarettes you smoke in a day, and the longer you've smoked, the higher your risk of lung cancer. Similarly, the risk rises the deeper you inhale and the earlier in life you started smoking.
For ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the risk of lung cancer drops to the same as that of a non-smoker.
If you smoke, the risk of contracting mouth cancer is four times higher than for a non-smoker. Cancer can start in many areas of the mouth, with the most common being on or underneath the tongue, or on the lips.
Other types of cancer that are more common in smokers are:
Emphysema develops after years of smoking. Lung cancer can develop after a short stint with smoking such as what happened to the newsanchor, Peter Jennings, who had stopped smoking and then began again during the September 11, 2001 crisis. A fact that circulated in the 70's was that "50, one pack a day, years guaranteed lung cancer." Note: there were not as many chemicals in cigarettes of the 1970's as there are today. No matter what the facts may be, every human is different and facts are based on certain populations in test studies...so some humans will develop cancer or emphysema earlier than other people...diet, genetics and general health play a huge part in the risky adventure of smoking.
The likely word is emphysema, which results from destruction of the alveoli and prevents oxygen from being absorbed in the lungs.
Lung cancer is a disease you can get from smoking. also called smoker's lung
Lung Disease
Smoking can cause emphysema, heart disease, and cancer.
False, Cigarette smoking does affect coronary heart disease.
smoking doesn't bring on heart disease but definitely encourages it in a big way AND IT'S BAD FOR YOU
According to the surgeon general, smoking can lead to a variety of diseases and cancers, including lung disease.
he has AIDS no seriously he has a gentic disease that is very rare called "Apert's Disease" or "Crouzon Disease" in other words its basically a deformity problly from his mom smoking crack/cocaine or other risk behaviors
Smoking, not eating vegatibles, but smoking is a definate answer. :)
No. The number 1 cause is heart disease. However, that is an effect of smoking, furthermore, smoking also causes the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th leading causes of death, which are cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory disease, respectively. Smoking can not be called a cause of death by itself; it simply causes diseases that account for more deaths that anything else.
It causes bronchitis and lung cancer and heart disease.
Yes!
no