What does tobacco do to blood vessels?

Answer 1

First, it contains tar. Tar is a sticky black substances that when it is inhaled, gets stuck in the cilia of your throat and lungs. The body can normally get rid of it somewhat well except for that fact that cigarettes also have formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is the chemical used to preserve dead organisms (like a frog you would dissect in middle school). This causes the tar to stay stuck and preserved in your lungs and throat.

Next, it contains hundred of chemicals and compounds such as rat poison and carbon monoxide (both pretty toxic stuff).

Next, the nicotine gets you addicted and affects the way your neurons work in your brain and throughout your body. Not only that, but nicotine is a stimulant and a depressant. This is what makes its effects so powerful. It constrict blood vessels so blood may not get to your extremities as fast or efficient. Constricted blood vessel with blood cells coated in tar increases your risk for strokes and heart attacks. Lastly, lung cancer, emphysema, bronchitis, and Heart disease (the number one killer in America) are all directly linked to smoking.

It constricts the blood vessels, clogs the breathing passages, increases heart rate and blood pressure, turns teeth yellow, gives bad breath, suppresses the appetite so as to inhibit proper nutrition, and turns your fingernails brown.

Tobacco can create a tar like substance in your lungs, causing aesthma and to a larger extent, lung cancer. However, cigarettes are an entirely different matter, and contain chemicals that can do a variety of damage.

Answer 2

Cigarette smoking damages the body slowly and greatly, and one of the areas where smoking causes the most problems is in the cardiovascular system. The cardiovascular system is composed of your heart, lungs, and circulatory system. Smoking creates a lot of problems here because you constantly use your cardiovascular system.

You use it simply by breathing, and when you smoke, all the tar from the cigarettes slowly clog up the aviolie in your lungs. Aviolie are the areas where oxygen is defused into the blood stream and the more of these that are clogged the harder it is for oxygen to circulate to the body. This will lead to wheezing and shortness of breath.

Cigarette smoking has many irreversible health effects associated with it, which can be short or long term on your respiratory system and heart. Smoking directly damages your respiratory system. For example, a person who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day for one year is doing the same as smearing one cup of tar on his/her lungs. Tobacco smoke contains 4000 different chemicals some of which are Carbon Monoxide, Ammonia, Hydrogen Cyanide, and Lead. These substances combined can seriously damage the body and can even be fatal.

Answer 3

Chemicals present in tobacco smoke, mainly nocotine, affects peripheric blood vessels by narrowing them causing an increase of arterial pressure and leading to hypertension, or high blood pressure.

Answer 4

it effects your breathing. you get tired quickly after exercise. your food can taste bad and you don't want to eat. disturbed sleep patterns but feel very tired.

Answer 5

tobacco can temporarily raise blood pressure, and it DOES increase the risk of heart and blood vessel diseases.

Answer 6

It destroys the respiratory system