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The effects of tobacco smoking on your body are related to direct tobacco smoking, and also to passive smoking, which is inhalation of secondhand tobacco smoke. A study has shown that that nonsmokers lived about 10-12  more years than the people who are smokers. Also the fact that the smokers are about 20 times more likely to be affected by lung cancer or other chronic diseases or by heart attacks than the nonsmokers. If the pregnant women smoke then the infant mortality rate would also be higher, because of the substances like nicotine and tar in the smoke would reduce the oxygen and blood flow to the unborn baby in its womb, and also the secondhand smoke exposure during pregnancy is  twice as risky of high infant mortality rate.

The use of tobacco is effective in particular a risk factor for a heart attack, and the diseases related to the respiratory tract, and cancer, particularly lung cancer and cancers of the tongue. A smoker may be relieved for the fact that that the risks of Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease may be significantly lower. A person's risk of getting affected by these diseases is for as long as he continuously smokes, However, if  he/she stops smoking, then the chances of being affected by the diseases gradually decreases.

Nicotine is a powerful, addictive substance which is the main factor for the continual tobacco use. Though the amount of nicotine inhaled with tobacco smoke is quite small, a very small amount that is being inhaled in enough to cause the damage. The health risks of smoking are not the same for all smokers but it varies on a number of factors like the number of cigarettes smoked. Smokers, who smoke more number of cigarettes are at a greater risk, although light smoking is still a health hazard.

Passive smoking occurs when the smoke that has been inhaled and exhaled by the smoker, also known as second hand smoke is inhaled by other people. Passive smoking involves inhaling chemical substances, as well as other toxic components, that are present in secondhand tobacco smoke. It is known that, in adults, secondhand smoke causes lung cancer, nasal sinus, heart disease, and asthma. Passive smoking  is also known to harm children through acute respiratory disorders.

Smoking increases the risk of erectile dysfunction by 50 percent, and obesity nearly doubles the risk. Men who are both overweight and physically inactive had a risk of nearly two times that of men who were active and of normal weight.

Smoking and obesity also increase the risk for heart disease, but they lead to erectile dysfunction at an earlier age.

Researchers have found that smokers may be at higher risk for becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The study, though, is not clear why smokers would be more likely to become infected with the virus, HIV., than nonsmokers. But smoking increases the risk of all types of infections, either  by changing the structure of the lung or weakening the immune system. 

Advantages if U quit :

• Blood Pressure and Pulse return to normal

• Temperature of hands and feet returns to normal

• Carbon Monoxide levels are already back to normal

• Your chance of Heart Attack has already decreased significantly

• Circulation improves

• Lung function can increase up to 30%  

• Your risk of heart disease is one-half of what it was one year ago.

Some unknown facts about Smoking:

• Every cigarette takes about 11 minutes off you life.

• Smokers in their 40's have as many facial wrinkles as non smokers in their 60's

• In India one person is diagnosed with lung cancer, which is mostly associated with smoking every 15 minutes.

• 114,000people die every year of smoking, which comes to around 315 every day.

• Smoking gives u yellow teeth, bad breath and hollow cheeks from repeated sucking of  the cigarette smoke.

• Female smokers will have around 30% low fertility rate than nonsmokers.

• 50% of the male smokers are more likely to be impotent.

• Around 450 children/teenagers start smoking everyday.

• Men, who smoke around their pregnant partner can harm the unborn child.

• Women who smoke and take contraceptive pill are more likely to get a heart attack.

• Cervical cancer rates are four times higher in smokers than non-smokers.

• Smoking may result in brittle hairs, stomach ulcers, and problems with constipation.

Did U Know!!!

• Dangerous levels of nicotine is contained in one half of a cigar or three Cigarettes!

• The Spanish word "tobacco" is thought to have its origin in the Caribbean!

• China, Brazil and India are top three producers of Tobacco!

• The manufacturing  process of tobacco continues for a period of  several months!    

• Gutka is a tobacco product manufactured and used mainly here in India!

• Tobacco water is used as an insecticide!

• Lung disease, lung cancer, are rare diseases in the absence of smoking.

• Heart disease, diseases of the heart arteries.

• Smoking kills more people through its increase in heart attacks than it does with cancer!

• 30% of deaths due to heart attacks are due to smoking.

• The risk of a heart attack is increased six times in women and three times in men

• Cancers of bladder, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, larynx, mouth, cervix.

• Increase the heart rate and the blood pressure

• Increases fibrinogen, a protein involved in the formation of clots

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