Scientists and doctors know so much
more about the effect of smoking today than ever before. They know smoking
causes immediate effects on the smoker’s body. It centrists the airway of the
lung. It increases the smoker’s heart decease. It elevates the smoker’s blood
pressure. The carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke deprives the tissues of the
smoker’s body of much-needed oxygen. All of these are dangerous short team
effects. There are more serious long-term effects as well. Smoked tobacco in
the forms of cigarettes, pipe, and cigars causes lung cancers, emphysema, and
other respiratory disease. In fact, smoking causes ninety percent of all lung
cancers case. Twenty percent of heavy smokers get the chronic liver disease
which causes the narrowing, and clogging of the airways passages in the lungs.
This disease is seldom seen in nonsmokers. Smokers are also at least four times
more likely to develop oral and laryngeal cancer than nonsmokers. Smoking harms
not just the smokers, but also the family members and other who breathe the
smoker’s cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke. Among infants to 18 years of
age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis
and pneumonia each year. Secondhand smoke from a parent’s cigarette increases a
child’s chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing etc.
Written By Saren Chem, MBA
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