Smoking is Injurious to Health

Smoking is harmful

When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke virtually anywhere - even in hospitals! Cigarette ads all over. Today we are more aware of what smoking is bad for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in most public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on television, radio, and in many magazines.

Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease, which can shorten your life by 10 years or older, and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still going on? The answer, in a word, is addiction.

It's hard to stop

Smoking is a hard habit to break, because snuff contains nicotine which is highly addictive. As heroin or other addictive substances, body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person must have just to feel normal.

People start smoking for a variety of reasons. Some think it looks good. Others start because their family or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 consumers of snuff before they start 18 years. Most adults who started smoking during adolescence is not likely to become addicted. That is why people say it's just easier not to start smoking at all.

How does it affect your health not to smoke

There are no physical reasons to start smoking. The body does not need to snuff, the way that the needs for food, water, sleep and exercise. Indeed, many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high enough doses.

The body is smart. So the defense when being poisoned. For this reason, many people find it takes several attempts to start smoking: for the first time smokers often feel pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or vomit for the first time to track snuff.

The consequences of this gradual poisoning. In the long term snuff leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), and many cancers - including lung, throat, stomach and bladder cancer. People who smoke also have an increased risk of infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. 

These factors restrict the ability of a person who normally are active and can be fatal. Each time a smoker lights up a single cigarette has about 5 and 20 minutes of life of the person.

Smokers not only develop wrinkles and yellow teeth, they also lose bone density, which increases their risk of osteoporosis, a condition that causes older people bowed and their bones to break easily. Smokers also tend to be less active than nonsmokers because smoking affects lung capacity.

Smoking can also cause fertility problems and can affect sexual health in men and women. Girls who are on the pill or other hormone-based methods of contraception (such as patch or ring) increases the risk of serious health problems like heart attack if they smoke.

The consequences of smoking may seem very long, but long-term health problems are not only the dangers of smoking. Nicotine and other toxins in cigarettes, cigars and pipes can affect a person's body quickly, which means that teen smokers experience many of these problems:

      * Bad skin. Because smoking restricts blood vessels, preventing oxygen and nutrients from reaching the skin - so that smokers often appear pale and unhealthy. An Italian study also linked smoking to an increased risk of contracting a type of skin rash called psoriasis. 

      * Bad breath. Leave cigarette smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath. 

      * Bad-smelling clothes and hair. The smell of old smoke tend to lean - not just in the clothes of people, but in their hair, furniture and cars. And it is often difficult to get the smell of smoke. 

      * The reduction in athletic performance. People who smoke usually can not compete with nonsmoking peers because the physical effects of snus use (such as tachycardia, decreased circulation and shortness of breath) impair sports performance. 

      * Increased risk of damage and recovery time slower. Smoking affects the body's ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries such as damage to tendons and ligaments heal more slowly in smokers than nonsmokers. 

      * Increased risk of disease. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions such as asthma, more and more sick if they smoke. Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their body lacks nutrients they need to grow and develop properly and fight disease. 

  

No smoking

All forms of snuff - cigarettes, pipes, cigars and smokeless snuff - is dangerous. It helps to substitute products that seem to be better for you than regular cigarettes, as filtered or low tar cigarettes.

All that really helps a person avoid the problems associated with snus is not smoking. It is not always easy, especially if everyone around you is smoking and cigarette offers. 

The good news for people who do not smoke or who want to quit is that studies show that the number of teenagers who smoke has dropped dramatically. Today, approximately 23% of high school students smoke. 

Staying smoke free will give you more of everything - more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket and in the long run, more life to live!