Smoking Hazards 8 The Obligation to Know

Smoking is harmful to almost all organs of the body, causing many diseases and affect the general health of smokers. When you quit smoking, you can feel the benefits directly or long term, for you and those you love.

 

The amount of the dangers of smoking really is not recognized by the smoker, because on every cigarette pack warnings are now required from the government, which reads: "SMOKING CAN CAUSE CANCER, HEART ATTACK, impotence, AND THE INTERRUPTION OF PREGNANCY AND FETAL." But, often strong dependence on cigarettes make people not want to stop sucking, until it was too late: when you are sentenced to suffer one of these diseases.

 

Tobacco Effect

Cancer

• Smoking causes around 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and 80% in women. Risk of death from lung cancer 23 times higher in male smokers and 13 times higher in women smokers than in those with non-smokers. Research show that nonsmokers who live with a smoker has a risk of 24% higher for lung cancer than nonsmokers in general.

• Smoking can also cause bladder cancer, oral cavity, pharynx, vocal cords, esopagus, cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach.

Heart and Blood Vessel

 

Heart Disease

 

• Smoking causes coronary heart disease which is one of the highest cause of death in Indonesia. Smokers have a chance of 2-4 times higher for coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.

• Smokers have an increased risk of stroke is twice as large

• Smoking reduces blood circulation due to narrowed arteries. Therefore, smokers are 10 times more likely to vascular disease, including erectile dysfunction / impotence.

• Smoking causes abdominal aortic anurisma (local widening of blood vessels in the abdominal aorta). Risk of death from this disease high among smokers as those blood vessels ruptured (broken).

Respiratory disorders

Smoking increases the risk of death from chronic lung disease tenfold. Approximately 90% of deaths due to chronic lung disease caused by smoking.

Fetal disorders

Smoking is bad for reproductive health and the fetus in the womb, including infertility (sterility), miscarriage, fetal death, infants born weighing lower body, and sudden infant death syndrome.

How To Ruin Body Cigarettes?

Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled, and then spread throughout the body via blood circulation, including the Breast.

Carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke binds hemoglobin in red blood cells, reducing the oxygen channel function in full.

The elements of causing cancer (carcinogens) in Tobacco damage important genes that control cell growth, so that cells do not grow or develop normally is too fast.

The element named carcinogens benzopiren binding cells in the respiratory tract and other important organs of smoker that cause cancer.