Covering link between smoking and cervical cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung cancer.
Facts on dangers of smoking cigarettes help us understand the dangers of smoking in a glimpse. The most common reason why millions attempt to separate themselves from this dreadful addiction every year.
Yet again millions of people who start smoking as much as those who continue smoking lack full enlightenment on these dangers. Most of the information is hear-say which fast become distorted and perhaps reaches the final recipient ,full of half truths. This problem is especially so in developing countries were access to information is still hindered by many factors.
Basic access to the following facts would help avoid disastrous endings in people who smoke or those who consider starting to smoke.
Facts on dangers of smoking cigarettes: Health
There is a link between smoking and cervical cancer. If you smoke you increase your risk of developing precancerous lesions in the cervix. This increases the risk of developing cervical cancer.
Smoking weakens your immune system (even though smokers have a more active than normal immune system) increasing susceptibility to the human papilloma virus in particular. This is responsible for genital warts, precancers and cancers of the cervix and genital area.
Diseases caused by smoking includes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), peptic ulcer disease, infertility, acute myeloid leukemia and cataract.
Chronic lung disease is responsible for 73% smoking related conditions in smokers.
when you smoke you give out second hand smoke which has been found to be responsible for approximately 3400 lung cancer deaths in the USA alone.
If you smoke you exacerbate asthma in children including increased frequency of colds and ear infections and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Smoking while pregnant has accounted for an estimated 20 to 30% of low-birth weight babies and up to 14% preterm deliveries. Babies born of smoking mothers have reduced lung function.
Like second hand smoke, third hand smoke which hangs in clothing and carpets has also proved to be hazardous to those who do not smoke.
Facts on dangers of smoking cigarettes: general
Cigarettes harm the environment as much as they harm human beings. Air pollution is a key concern of cigarette smoking.
Cigarette butts pollutes land and water. In some clean-ups done in California cigarette butts accounted for 25% of the waste collected. They take on average 25 years to completely decompose.
Smoking promotes tobacco growing in developing countries which takes up arable land meant for food production.
Harmful outdated methods of tobacco growing in most developing countries such as dangerous insecticide spraying harms the environment.
Smoking cigarettes sustains tobacco production demand which has been linked to abusive child labor harmful to children's health
For a cigarette to come to the market, a tree must in turn die. Cigarettes are responsible for thousands of tree cut to produce the cigarette paper.
