What is the consequences of smoking?

Answer 1

Smoking is one among many factors that cause death but probably the biggest one that is preventable. On average few thousand people die every day because of tobacco and its bad consequences. Actually, smoking kills more people than the worst epidemic diseases. It doesn't cause only bad smell on clothes, yellow teeth and unpleasant smell in your mouth but also many serious diseases.
Smoking might influence 17 different sorts of cancer of which lung cancer is the most obvious and often. Besides this cancer in throat, gullet, mouth cavity, oesophagus, pancreas, stomach, kidney and bladder are also smoking diseases. Smoking also causes chronicle cough, bronchitis and other diseases on lungs. It influences other specific diseases like asthma, angina, fever, shiver, � Inhaling of tobacco smoke is harmful also for the heart and veins, because nicotine is one of the leading causes of heart attack and tobacco smoke itself narrows coronaries. Besides, smoking does harm also to other veins and accelerates sclerosis of arteries, which causes bad circulation in legs. This is why some smokers after the age of 40 feel pain in the calf. They have to stop often, while walking, until the pain similar to a spasm is over. The disease progress is very obvious if the smoker doesn't give up his bad habit. Lately, there are more and more people, whose legs have to be cut because of the total artery obstruction.
Nicotine does harm also to digestive organs because it demolishes the balance of acids in stomach. Its consequence is abscess on stomach. This disease can be cured in case that person stops smoking. Long-lasting smoking can also cause impotence by older smokers and is also the cause that the skin gets older and wrinkled earlier.
Lately, the cause of smoking on health of new-borns is more and more pointed out. Actually, children whose mothers have been smoking during their pregnancy weigh less when born and they also can be born less developed. Nicotine influences woman's fertility, which is often lowered, but there are also more abortions within mothers - smokers than within non-smokers.
It is well known that a smoker who smokes 10-20 cigarettes a day lives on average 5 years less than a non-smoker does. Some smokers even like this statistic, because they do not want to live in this world very long. But they are not aware of dying, which is often very slow and even painful. One of the most important bad consequences is passive smoking. Smoker's organism is usually used to poisonous substances whereas the non-smoker's organism is not. This is why smoking does harm also to non-smokers. It has been found out that a non-smoker living with a smoker who smokes about 2 boxes cigarettes per day inhales the same quantity of tobacco smoke as he smoke 3 cigarettes per day. It's also dangerous when a non-smoker drives car when others in the car smoke. This can really weaken driver's physical ability, he can also get pains in eyes and headache. Passive smokers are especially endangered people with asthma, hearth diseases and other sensible people.
Smoking has lots of harmful consequences but they are not all so bad. It has been proved that the organism after giving up smoking starts repairing the damage. Real recovery is seen within about 5 years after giving up smoking. And about 15 years later the mortality of ex-smokers is similar to the one of non-smokers.


LUNG CANCER


About 50 years ago, lung cancer was still a very rare disease. Sometimes it was found out during the autopsy on a dead body but was otherwise described rarely. However, the number of people ill of cancer increases every year and even more rapidly as the number of people with any other cancer disease. Lung cancer is more often a man- than a woman-disease.
Chances for going down with lung cancer depend on the cigarettes smoked per day. An average smoker risks about 10X more to get lung cancer than a non-smoker does, however, a passionate smoker who smokes few packets per day risks even 20X more. The same chances grow also with smoking years. Statistics show that with the doubling years from 10 to 20 the risk increases for 16X. It has also been shown in several experiments that tobacco smoke includes substances that cause cancer. To treat lung cancer it must first be found out. For this an X-ray picture of chest is very important, where doctors can distinguish unusual shadows in lungs. X-ray is recommended to all smokers after 40, who can notice some changes in their cough or they can even go down with pneumonia. Although, similar shadows can also be signs for other diseases. In case the doctor predicts lung cancer the treatment goes on with other methods. If the cancer is detected very late there are only few chances to get over. Such patient is treated with radioactive rays, what usually stop cancer-expansion, embellish pains and lengthen patient's life. Only by giving up smoking you can partially reduce the danger of falling ill of lung cancer.


CHRONICLE BRONCHITIS


All over the World chronicle bronchitis is the most common chronicle lung disease. There are a lot of things that affect it and the most serious is smoking. In the late age it is almost everyday disease, which can be recognised by continuous cough and mucous, sometimes even purulent expectoration. Patients treat their chronicle bronchitis usually only as oppression and not as a disease although it can lead to death. We can search the reason for such behaviour in fact that people know the cause of their trouble - cigarette, but they just cannot give it up.
Chronicle bronchitis affects work ability, invalidity and also mortality. It is well known that chronicle bronchitis is almost the most common cause for staying out of work.
The beginning of the chronicle bronchitis has its foundation in the fact that lungs are not successful anymore in fighting against harmful influences from the surroundings. One of them is the air, which comes into lung constantly, and brings a lot of gases and physical particles in, what all comes to alveoli. Considering the level of air pollution, which is not very high, non-smokers do not have such problems with breathing some poisonous substances. On the other hand, air pollution very rarely affects smokers, because they are much more affected by inhaling tobacco smoke, which consists of 100 million more harmful substances and parts as the most polluted air in London after the great catastrophe. In that time about 4000 people died, smokers however inhale these poisons day after day. Still, lungs can fight against these factors when they still have some power. But when the concentration of the substances becomes too high and the mucus does not secrete fast enough it must be secreted by a man, by his constant chronicle cough. The mucus which has some time been kept back in respiratory pathways is a perfect place for multiplication of bacteria. This can be a cause for gasping, when patients after longer physical work claim to get gasped very fast. For example, first patient gasps by a quick rise on few stairs, but later because of the trachea contraction he gasps already after an easier work.
Chronicle bronchitis can change the structure of respiratory pathways so much that it can curtail lungs' and heart's function.
The number of people sickened of chronicle bronchitis can fall only when the air pollution gets lower or when smokers give up their habit. Still, if they will not be totally safe from chronicle bronchitis, they can at least be saved from everyday cough up of mucous expectoration, which stands still in respiratory pathways during the night.

Answer 2

If you live in queensland australia the consequence is social isolation with the chance of a $150 fine if caught smoking in a pub or a public venue.

Answer 3

your skin ages faster, Your lungs get filled with the same tar as they put on the streets, you can get cancer in your mouth, on your tongue, in your lungs, throat, and esophagus. Emphysema is another problem making it hard to breathe. If you have Asthma, you can die real quick, your skin and eyes turn a yellowish color, your skin and hair dry out making it easier for cigar or cigarette ash to ignite on either, you smell bad, constantly.....those around you suffer from the same consequences you would but faster as they don't have a filter. The cancer in the throat can make you need a hole in your throat so you can breathe through that cause it won't make it to your nose and mouth.....you also get to talk outta one of those voice box things that make you sound like a robot.......

and eventually you'll die a painful, smelly, yellow death....because you smoked.....

anything else?

Answer 4

Yellow Skin,Fingers,Limited Number of Friends/People who are prepared to spend time with you!
The possibility of Giving someone a Passive disease by being in their presence.
The Inability to Smell good-Even after taking a Shower!
Oh, and potentially a Horrible Death due to a secondary respiratory complication!!

Answer 5

Smoker's cough, stained teeth, halatosis, peripheral vascular disease,lung cancer, reduced lung capacity, heart attack, heart disease, premature birth, low birth weight, Emphysema, cancer of the mouth, voice box (larynx), throat (pharynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, liver, cervix, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemias, premature wrinkling of the skin, bad smelling clothes and hair, and yellow fingernails, stroke, and blood clots of the legs.


The list is extensive. But then again, the consequences of smoking what????

Answer 6

Ignore all the posers theres no consequences from smoking at all if you are strong enough.

Answer 7

"What are the consequences of smoking weed?" is correct. The other two are not, but the third one is better than the first.

Answer 8

How Cigarettes Harm Us - From Head to Toe
Tobacco use plays a role in many diseases which ultimately lead to death or disability. With over 4000 chemical compounds present in the inhaled smoke, several of which are known carcinogens, it's no wonder that the effects of smoking are so destructive.

What are the two big diseases you think of being related to smoking? Chances are they are lung cancer and emphysema, neither of which is the number one killer of smokers. Heart disease holds first place. Researchers report that worldwide, there were 1,690,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular disease among smokers in the year 2000. In contrast, there were “only” 850,000 lung cancer deaths from smoking in the same year.

The effects of smoking hold additional risks for women. Those who smoke throughout their pregnancies increase the risk of:

Spontaneous abortion/miscarriage
Ectopic pregnancy
Abruptio placentae
Placenta previa
Premature rupture of the membranes
Premature birth
Risks to the fetus include:
Smaller infant(for gestational age)
Stillborn infant
Birth defects, e.g. congenital limb reduction
Increased nicotine receptors in baby's brain
Increased likelihood of child smoking as a teenager
Possible physical and mental long-term effects

Let's take a look at how tobacco affects us from head to toe.

You'll probably be surprised by at least a few of the things on the following list that occur due to tobacco.

Hair:
Smell and staining
Brain and Mental Effects:
Stroke(cerebrovascular accidents)
Addiction/withdrawal
Altered Brain chemistry
Anxiety about harm caused by smoking

Eyes:
Eyes sting, water and blink more
Blindness(macular degeneration)
Cataracts

Nose:
Less sense of smell

Skin:
Wrinkles
Premature aging

Teeth:
Discoloration and stains
Plaque
Loose teeth
Gum disease(gingivitis)

Mouth and Throat:
Cancers of the lips, mouth, throat and larynx
Sore throat
Reduced sense of taste
Breath smells of smoke

Hands:
Poor circulation(cold fingers)
Peripheral vascular disease
Tar stained fingers

Respiration and Lungs:
Lung Cancer
Cough and sputum
Shortness of breath
Colds and flu
Pneumonia
Asthma
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema)
Complicates Tuberculosis

Heart:
Harms, blocks and weakens arteries of the heart
Heart attack

Chest:
Cancer of the esophagus

Liver:
Cancer

Abdomen
Stomach and duodenal ulcers
Cancer of stomach, pancreas and colon
Aortic aneurysm

Kidneys and bladder:
Cancer

Bones:
Osteoporosis
Spine and hip fractures

Male reproduction:
Sperm: deformity,loss of motility, reduced number
Infertility
Impotence

Female reproduction
Period pains
Earlier menopause
Cancer of cervix
Infertility and delay in conception
Blood
Leukemia

Legs and Feet
Increased leg pain and gangrene: peripheral vascular disease
Beurger's Disease

Immune System
Weakened

Smoking is destructive and deadly.

Answer 9

For Men a Lump biscuit (The Lower part of a Male) for men and Woman. Death. bad breath, yellow teeth. Your cloths and all thing in your home and car smells bad.Not to many friends, Unless they are smoker too.

Answer 10

ashtray breath. which is very disgusting especially when you are kissing or being kissed by someone. I smoked for 15 years and i spend every minute wishing i hadn't... but i looked so cool! NOT!!!!
cancer....
premature death...
murder of people closest to you that inhale second smoke... this includes beloved pets....
are these enough answers? i sure hope it helps!

Answer 11

It depends sometimes you don't even smoke and u get lung cancer. Oh I went to body work mueseum and I saw that if u smoke your lungs will turn black and u will get a shorter life. So doon't smoke.