What are the Diseases that Smoking can cause?
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WHAT ARE THE DISEASES THAT SMOKING CAN CAUSE?
There are many reasons that lead people to finally make the
decision to stop smoking.
Besides the monetary cost (the new
Federal tax that went into effect on April 1, 2009, amounts to
$1....
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WHAT ARE THE DISEASES THAT SMOKING CAN CAUSE?
There are many reasons that lead people to finally make the
decision to stop smoking.
Besides the monetary cost (the new
Federal tax that went into effect on April 1, 2009, amounts to
$1.
01!), or the social stigma of smoking, the best reason to convince you to stop
smoking should be for your health and the health of those around you.
If you
would like to live a long, healthy life, that is.
It has long been known that smoking causes 30% of all deaths due to cancer, with
lung cancer topping the list.
Smoking is the cause of about 87% of all lung cancer
deaths.
It’s an equal opportunity cancer that kills both men and women, and is
difficult to treat.
Cancers of the larynx, mouth, throat, bladder and the
esophagus have been directly related to smoking since the 1980s.
Here in the
21st
century, doctors are finding that the list of cancers that smoking causes has
increased to include acute myeloid leukemia, cervix, kidney, pancreatic and
stomach cancers.
There are other deadly but non-cancerous diseases that are caused by smoking.
They include abdominal aortic aneurysm, pneumonia (which is especially deadly
for elderly patients) chronic lung disease, chronic heart and
cardiovascular diseases.
Smoking is also associated with
problems such as cataracts, macular degeneration (which can
eventually lead to blindness, if the smoking doesn’t kill you
first!), osteoporosis (which could lead to hip fracture) and
periodontitis (gum disease).
These diseases won’t kill you, but
they can make your life miserable.
If you’re a woman, you’ll want to know that smoking can damage your
reproductive health, reducing your chances of becoming pregnant.
If you do
become pregnant, you’ll have a higher risk of miscarriage, an early delivery, a
low-weight baby, a stillbirth or infant death.
Smoking is also linked to SIDS
(sudden infant death syndrome).
This list is way too long to print on each pack of cigarettes! There is no downside
to stopping smoking.
But people have to be ready to stop before they can
actually reach their goal.
So, to prevent spending your later years lugging an
oxygen tank behind you with tubes up your nose, consider stopping smoking
now, before it’s too late.
If you don’t want to do it for yourself, do it for your
family, who won’t suffer through all of your secondhand smoke.
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