Public Health Advices

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths. On average, people who smoke die 5 to 8 years earlier than people who do not smoke.

One of the major damage provided by the cigarette is the referred to health: Lung cancer is the most famous of the evils that provides the snuff, but there are other packages such as cancer diseases in the mouth, throat, esophagus, kidney, kidney, bladder and uterus, in the case of women. Also, smoking is the leading cause of acquired emphysema is a lung disease that slowly damages the respiratory system of people affecting your ability to breathe.

Those who use snuff, and people who live with smokers have virtually all cases of lung cancer. Your risk of developing cancer of the throat, mouth, esophagus, pancreas, kidney, bladder and cervix is several times higher than among people who are not regularly exposed to smoke snuff. Smoking is the major cause of emphysema, a debilitating lung disease that slowly destroys a person’s ability to breathe normally.

Smoking is especially dangerous for people with:
bullet heart disease
bullet blood vessel disease
bullet diabetes
bullet High blood pressure
bullet high cholesterol
bullet family history of these diseases.

Smokers and children living with them, have twice the risk of fatal heart disease. Smoking also increases stroke risk. Women, especially those over 35 years taking pills of birth control and smoke are at increased risk of stroke or heart attacks. Increased blood pressure is another danger of smoking. Smoking also reduces the levels of HDL or “good cholesterol”.

Smokers and people with them have two to three times more likely to suffer from peptic ulcers. Smokers also have a higher than normal risk of hip fractures, wrist and vertebral (spine). In addition, smoking complicates sleep disorders. Smokers also tend to catch colds and other respiratory infections more often than nonsmokers.

Snuff smoke is hazardous to nonsmokers. Exposure to smoke, also called passive smoking increases the risk of nonsmokers of having the same problems as smokers. A nonsmoker, remain in a very smoky room for an hour with several smokers inhales as many bad chemicals if fumase which actually inhale 10 or more cigarettes. One study showed that the rate of lung cancer among nonsmoking women depended on the amount of cigarettes, cigars or pipes smoked their husbands.

Smoking affects pregnant women and their unborn children. Mothers who smoke have an increased risk of spontaneous abortion and stillbirth. Children of mothers who smoke have, on average, lower birth weights. They also have more frequent respiratory infections, increased risk of chronic ear infections and asthma, lung function and less efficient. Recent findings suggest a possible link between cigarette smoking and maternal disorder attention deficit (hyperactivity) in children. It also continues to investigate the possibility that exposure to cigarette smoke may be a factor in sudden infant death syndrome (in English, SIDS). Children of smokers usually also develop the habit of smoking cigarettes.

The greater the number of cigarettes a person smokes each day, the greater the risk of disease. The switch from cigarettes to pipes or cigars may not reduce the risk of disease if the smoker continues to inhale the smoke. The cigar and pipe smokers have the same risk of cancer of the mouth, lips, larynx and esophagus as cigarette smokers. Fortunately, when a smoker stops smoking, many of these risks decrease.

Those who use snuff or chewing snuff (smokeless snuff “) increase their risk of cancer of the mouth. Mouth cancer can develop relatively quickly, within 10 to 15 years of first use of snuff or chewing snuff.

Tags: Blood presure, Cancer, Cause of preventable deaths, Cigarettes, HDL, Heart disease, Smoke, Smoking, Stroke