| No matter what good one imagines to get out of | | | | are some of the other harmful effects of |
| smoking, it certainly won't outweigh the harmful | | | | smoking? A person who regularly smokes has |
| effects of the habit. Yes, the effects of smoking | | | | greater chances of suffering from a heart attack. |
| are far too dangerous. The whole point is that | | | | Peptic ulcers, diabetes, back pain and vision |
| SMOKING KILLS, and that is a fact. This fact has | | | | problems, they are all linked with it, too. One is |
| been proven by researches and studies. To be | | | | also more likely to suffer from chronic obstructive |
| more specific, it causes 25 ominous diseases and | | | | pulmonary disease. |
| 11 cancers. This is certainly not to be brushed | | | | As for pregnant women, chances are their |
| aside. When one habitually smokes, it is for sure | | | | cigarette habit would lead to miscarriage, |
| that they will suffer from ill health as a | | | | premature birth or stillbirth. Asthma and allergy |
| consequence. Not only them, but the people | | | | sufferers will also have their conditions worsened. |
| around them too. Their families- people they love. | | | | And most everybody is aware of the harmful |
| Smokers drag others with them to ill health and | | | | effects of passive smoking. Innocent people's lives |
| possibly to the grave as well. How grave are the | | | | are put to illness and danger. Children of smokers |
| effects of smoking? Four hundred forty thousand | | | | become vulnerable, and they themselves are |
| people in the United States die each year for | | | | more likely to smoke. These children, too, they |
| conditions related to it. Each cigarette contains | | | | would become susceptible to other ailments such |
| approximately 4000 chemicals in it. Among these | | | | as middle ear infection, breathing problems and |
| 4000, 400 of these substances are toxic- | | | | chronic bronchitis and asthma. The cigarette habit |
| poisonous - and 25 of these on the other hand | | | | leads to stained and bad teeth and bad breath. So |
| can cause cancer. Within the list are nicotine, tar, | | | | it is with discolored skin of the hands and nails. |
| carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, arsenic, acetone, | | | | As for women who smoke, this would likely |
| DDT, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia. The | | | | cause them early menopause and menstrual and |
| scenario definitely doesn't look good. It's in fact | | | | fertility problems. Miscarriage and pregnancy |
| alarming, and yes, frightening. One tiny cigarette | | | | problems are also risks. Smoking women also |
| stick is harmful and poison in itself. | | | | have higher chances of developing osteoporosis. |
| What more if someone is in the habit of smoking | | | | As for men, they are in danger of suffering from |
| it for years? Heart disease, stroke and lung | | | | impotence and reduced fertility. What's more, |
| cancer- these are the foremost life-threatening | | | | their likelihood of having penile cancer is also |
| effects of this risky habit. Such diseases have | | | | increased. All these said, it's clear and expedient |
| high possibilities of causing death. Eighty percent of | | | | that this dangerous habit should be stopped. That |
| lung cancer deaths are effects of smoking, as | | | | is, if one wants to live longer and enjoy a better |
| well as 20% of all deaths related to cancer. What | | | | quality of life. |