The diseases caused by smoking If you quit today, you increase your chances for living longer and richer. And we do not just mean money in your pocket, since the cost of a package has never been higher. Smoking decreases your productivity and increases the Smoke damage to the environment. But perhaps the best reason to convince you to stop smoking is to increase your health, with the chance to live longer, healthier, and decreasing your chance of suffering from diseases caused by smoking.
First, the numbers: nearly half a million Americans will die from tobacco-related causes this year. Smoking causes 30% of all cancer deaths, and 87% of all deaths from lung cancer. Lung cancer is difficult to treat and affects men and women too. While cigarette smoke and feel with the risk of contracting cancer. It starts at the mouth, continues to the larynx, the throat to the esophagus until it reaches the stomach and finally the bladder. smoking-related cancers also include blood (AML) and organs, mainly kidneys and pancreas.
There are other killer diseases as cancer, which was considered caused by smoking. They include aneurysms (a burst blood vessel), heart disease and chronic lung diseases like COPD. Smoking can also cause strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and inadequate blood flow to the arm and legs. Bronchitis and pneumonia are common among smokers. If you have asthma, smoking can aggravate. Smoking can also cause cataracts and macular degeneration, and loss of bone density. These diseases may not kill you, but you make it more difficult to enjoy your life.
Everyone dies, smoking simply accelerates the process. Studies have shown that smokers die on average from 13-14 years earlier than non-smokers. Would not you rather die of old age?
Posted on April 1, 2010.