how does cigarette smoke affect our health?

Answer 1

It constricts your blood vessels. As blood vessels constrict it's harder for the red blood cells that carry oxygen to circulate through the body. Smoking can lead to decrease in lung expansion so your lungs are so polluted from smoking there is no strength or ability for you to take a deep breath to blow out candles. I can go on and on. It's BAD STUFF no matter how you try to descibe it.

Answer 2

Cigarettes have around 90 carcinogens..which will potentially lead to development of Lung cancer..Smokers risk a 10% higher risk of getting it than non smokers. N it even affects others by passive smoking. N it will turn off other people bt ur breath...I really cant stand cigarette smoke.

Answer 3

Coats Lungs With Tar, Turns Hair/Nails/Skin Colors, Makes You Have That Cigarette Smell In Your Skin...+++++++

Answer 4

What does nicotine do?

Nicotine in large doses is a poison and can kill by stopping a person's breathing muscles. Smokers usually take in small amounts that the body can quickly break down and get rid of. The first dose of nicotine causes a person to feel awake and alert, while later doses result in a calm, relaxed feeling.

Nicotine can make new smokers, and regular smokers who get too much of it, feel dizzy or sick to their stomachs. The resting heart rate for young smokers increases 2 to 3 beats per minute. Nicotine also lowers skin temperature and reduces blood flow in the legs and feet. It plays an important role in increasing smokers' risk of heart disease and stroke. Because nicotine is such a powerful constrictor of arteries, many vascular surgeons refuse to operate on patients with peripheral artery disease unless they stop smoking.

Answer 5

its have many nicoten and some smok oil and thier can buld some whole in you blond line and day by day its start let's your body have some not health affect and its have so long times so the people always need docter after thire get disiss so at that time was your over the time about get well of your body may be your face to die if you smoking around your all life .

Answer 6

It affects our lungs which help you breath And if you can breath well you either get asthma or you can die Dont smoke it's just stupid God didn't give you life just so you can throw it away on cigars Don't be stupid About 50,000 people die EVERY DAY Just for smoking

Answer 7

Cancer -mainly throat and lung
Heart Disease
Lung conditions (which I can't spell) coughing up blood sure is fun!
Impotence
Premature aging

and that's just off the top of my head and doesn't include the fact that you STINK and you make people around you STINK.

People who smoke are morons.

Answer 8

it is searing hot smoke, how would you think it would affect our health? human lungs weren't meant to breath smoke in, they are not designed for that

Answer 9

The tar within the smoke clogs your lungs. Among other things!

Answer 10

Health Effects of Smoking

Each year, a staggering 440,000 people die in the US from tobacco use. Nearly 1 of every 5 deaths is related to smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

Cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is a major cause of cancers of the lung, larynx (voice box), oral cavity, pharynx (throat), and esophagus, and is a contributing cause in the development of cancers of the bladder, pancreas, liver, uterine cervix, kidney, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemias.

About 87% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women, and is one of the most difficult cancers to treat. It is very hard to detect when it is in the earliest, most treatable stage. Fortunately, lung cancer is largely a preventable disease. Groups that promote nonsmoking as part of their religion, such as Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, have much lower rates of lung cancer and other smoking-related cancers.

But cancers account for only about half of the deaths related to smoking. Smoking is also a major cause of heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema, and stroke, and contributes to the severity of pneumonia. Tobacco has a damaging affect on women's reproductive health and is associated with increased risk of miscarriage, early delivery (prematurity), stillbirth, infant death, and is a cause of low birth weight in infants. Furthermore, the smoke from cigarettes has a harmful health effect on those around the smoke. (Refer to the American Cancer Society documents "Secondhand Smoke" and "Women and Smoking.")

Based on data collected from 1995 to 1999, the CDC estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking.

But not all of the health problems related to smoking result in deaths. In the year 2000, about 8.6 million people were suffering from at least one chronic disease due to current or former smoking, according to the CDC. Many of these people were suffering from more than one smoking-related condition. The diseases occurring most often were chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.

Ingredients in tobacco: Cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless and pipe tobacco consist of dried tobacco leaves, as well as ingredients added for flavor and other properties. More than 4,000 individual compounds have been identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Among these are about 43 compounds that are carcinogens.

Cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless and pipe tobacco consist of dried tobacco leaves, as well as ingredients added for flavor and other properties. More than 4,000 individual compounds have been identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Among these are more than 60 compounds that are known carcinogens (cancer-causing agents).

There are hundreds of substances added by manufacturers to cigarettes to enhance the flavor or to make the smoking experience more pleasant. Some of the compounds found in tobacco smoke include ammonia, tar, and carbon monoxide. Exactly what effect these substances have on the cigarette consumer’s health is unknown, but there is no evidence that lowering the tar content of a cigarette improves the health risk. Manufacturers do not provide the public information about the precise amount of additives used in cigarettes, so it is difficult to accurately gauge that public health risk.