Effects of smoking

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Cigarettes have become a small object of the most popular. Smoking has become a way of life for many men and women, even including children and adolescents. The habit of smoking has resulted in many diseases of the respiratory disorders to cancer. Although aware of the dangers of smoking, people around the world still continues to suck dozens of billion cigarettes each day.

The number of smokers in Indonesia was ranked third highest in the world. The number of smokers in developing countries far more than the number of smokers in developed countries. The figures are very alarming considering the harmful effects of smoking will only be felt in the long term.
 

A stick of Cigarette Ingredients

Any substance contained in a cigarette? Nicotine is the main substances contained in cigarettes. However, more than 700 kinds of chemical additives may be used by tobacco companies to increase the enjoyment of smoking. Some stuff is so toxic that even some major cigarette manufacturers will usually have a high standard to dispose of toxic materials which are very dangerous.

Passive smoking can have a negative impact is more terrible if they are inhaled cigarette smoke.

In addition, cigarette smoke contains 4000 chemicals, including arsenic, acetone, butane, carbon monoxide, and cyanide. Cigarette smoke is inhaled by smokers and passive smokers will contain 43 substances known to cause cancer. That is why for the second-hand smoke can have a negative impact is more terrible if they inhaled cigarette smoke.


Dangers of Tobacco

What are the harmful effects of a lifestyle that is harmful to health? What are the diseases caused by smoking? Here are some diseases and the negative impact caused by smoking:

* Heart Disease
Tobacco is also one major cause of heart attacks. A smoker's death from heart disease more than the deaths from lung cancer. Even low-tar cigarettes or low nicotine will not reduce the risk of heart disease. Because some of the cigarettes that use a filter to increase the amount of carbon monoxide is inhaled, which makes cigarettes are even worse for heart than cigarettes which do not use filters.

Nicotine contained in cigarettes can make your heart beat faster and increases your body's need for oxygen. Cigarette smoke also contains carbon monoxide is poisonous. These toxic substances walked to actually impede blood flow and oxygen flow to the heart and other vital organs. Nicotine can narrow the blood vessels so that more oxygen flow slows again. That's why smokers have an increased risk of heart disease is very high.

* Lung Cancer
Cigarette smoke from tobacco contains many cancer-causing chemical. Inhaled smoke contains many chemicals that can damage lungs. These substances can trigger the occurrence of cancer, especially in the lungs. Lung cancer is the most common cancer caused by smoking. The spread of lung cancer in the body in a quiet place to be a higher stage. In many cases, lung cancer kills quickly.

* Emphysema
Heavy smokers who had for years will have emphysema. Emphysema is a disease that gradually will make the lungs lose elasticity. If the lungs lose elasticity, it will be difficult to remove the unused air. The signs are started having trouble breathing in the morning and evening. So easily out of breath. Other signs are often experiencing severe flu, accompanied by a severe cough, and possibly with chronic bronchitis. Cough is often times do not stop and become chronic.

* Old Faster
The results of the smokers showed that smokers face men and women are more wrinkles than those who do not smoke. The process of aging is increased in accordance with the habits and the number of cigarettes smoked. The study showed that heavy smokers have wrinkles on the skin is almost five times higher than nonsmokers. Even the premature aging process has already begun for the teens who smoke, such as skin wrinkles, yellowed teeth and bad breath.
   
* Body Damage
The negative impact of smoking is not only harmful to the lungs, heart, and respiratory tract. Smoking habits according to research can damage other body tissues. Dozens of diseases related to tobacco use and even includes pneumonia (pneumonia), gum disease, leukemia, cataracts, kidney cancer, cervical cancer, and pain in the pancreas. The reason for the toxicity of cigarette smoke spread everywhere through the bloodstream. Smoking can cause disease in nearly every organ of the body.