Bad effects of Smoking

Bad effects of Smoking

  Smoking is very dangerous habit among in human beings.People who smoke they know it cause side effects in our body.Although some people have the habit of chain smoking.This is very danger to the lungs.

  According to World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that tobacco caused 5.4 million deaths in 2004. and 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century. Several countries have taken measures to control the consumption of tobacco with usage and sales restrictions as well as warning messages printed on packaging

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Smoke contains several carcinogenic paralytic products that bind to DNA and cause many genetic mutations. There are 45 known or suspected chemical carcinogens in cigarette smoke.There are Carbon monoxide,Tar,Ammonia,Hydrogen cyanide,Metals,Radioactive compounds.

.Tobacco also contains nicotine, which is a highly addictive psychoactive drug. When tobacco is smoked, nicotine causes physical and psychological changes. Tobacco use is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, and it contributes to a number of other threats to the health of the fetes such as premature births and low weight

Short term effects of smoking

•  It  blocks the airways of lungs.
• It increase the heart rate of the body.
• It elevates the blood pressure
• Carbon monoxide in tobacco destroy smokers body and much needed oxygen 
  

                          Harmful effect of Smoking

  1. Tobacco smoke also cause a number of cancers
  2. The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette smoke temporarily increases heart rate and blood pressure.
  This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, reduce oxygen
  
  
  1. Tar binds the lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer.  20 day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
  2. Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
  3. Carbon monoxide robs muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
  4. Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die.
  5. Emphysema for example is an illness that slowly rots  lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
  6. Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.
  7. Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
  8. Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
  9. Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
  10. In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking
  11. 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.