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The Consequences of smoking:
Health hazard:
Tobacco smoking occupies first place in the world among preventable reasons for death rate, however, roughly 5 million people die annually as a result of health related problems, caused by smoking. In the developed countries (USA), life expectancy of smokers on an average is shorter by 13 years in comparison to nonsmokers.
Smoking, to be precise nicotine, blocks vitamin C acquisition. Thereby, hypovitaminosis C is provoked, consequences of which are reflected on all organs, especially, the walls of vessels are exposed to destruction by oxidants.
Smoking leads to pronounced changes in internal organs; more often respiratory organs, cardiovascular system and gastrointestinal tract are affected.
Smokers are more prone to lung cancer by several times than nonsmokers. According to latest data, more than 90 percent of cases of lung cancer are related to smoking in anamnesis. Main etiological factors for causing lung cancer in smokers are: radon, polonium, benzpyrene and nitrosamines, containing in tobacco tar.
Smoking also increases probability and other kinds of malignant tumors. The following are organs are prone to malignant tumors: oral cavity, esophagus, throat, pancreas, stomach, large intestine, kidney, urinary bladder, liver and prostates.
Besides, smoking also causes emphysema of lungs — chronic disease, connected with irreversible degeneration of pulmonary tissue.
Smoking is risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.
Smoking promotes development of infectious diseases of respiratory organs. And also is risk factor for complications during pregnancy.
Passive smoking health hazards:
Smoking increases probability of lung cancer and breast cancer in associates (so-called passive smokers) by also increasing the risk factor for occurrence of asthma, heart diseases, miscarriage (in pregnant women), and other health problems in children as well as in adults. In France, from 3000 to 5000 people prematurely die per year due to passive smoking.
The British government now has launched a series of what have been described as very touch anti smoking advertisements. The message in the ads is that smoking is bad for your sex life because it renders men impotent and women ugly. The campaign has been aimed towards young Brits who fear their attractiveness might be impacted by any number of factors. One ad uses a burning cigarette end between what are described as two "finger legs" -- a metaphor for a penis -- with the tag-line: Does smoking make you hard? If not it means you can't get it up. Another ad targets women and states that cigarettes cause premature skin aging and gives a smoker what is called cat's bum mouth. |
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