what are the effects of smoking?

Question

This is part of my health n social care coursework

soz lol the effects of smoking 20 cigarettes a day?

Answer 1

The negative side effects of smoking are damage to throat and lungs;
added risk of heart disease;
depletion of certain vitamins, especially Vitamin C, which might cause some health problems,
discolouration of teeth and fingernails and even the skin around the fingernails on the hand that holds the cigarette,
ostracism due to smelling like an ashtray;
ostracism due to being a smoker in the first place;
a weakened immune system due to depletion of vitamins in part, but mainly due to being forced to smoke outdoors in the freezing cold:
Lung disease; respiratory diseases; and sometimes cancer;
damage to an unborn foetus;
costs of decorating (white walls will yellow quickly);
costs of buying the cigarettes;
costs of getting private health care for your emphysema or whatever, which your G.P. doesn't care to treat as you a smoker;
cost of tissues which you need to hack up the daily ten oysters or so ...
probably more!
The positive side-effects should get a mention too, for the sake of an unbiased report.
good for the digestion;
good for certain types of dental problems;
aids concentration and focussing skills;
reduces stress;
reduces the toxic effects of alcohol.
Probably a lot more there too!
In the neutral box, premature ageing is often cited as a negative side-effect, but that probably depends on the person (By premature ageing, I mean wrinkled skin and not breathlessness due to lung capacity or heart)
Depending on the how much nicotine and tar the cigarette contains, and on personal hygiene, smelling bad is no longer an "option".

People who suffer from stress-related diseases are discouraged to cold turkey because their conditon would get worse. Until they can find an alternative way of managing their stress, smoking is acceptable, but hopefully they try to cut down.
Breathing exercises are useful to delay lighting up, as is holding the cigarette in your fingers when you feel the urge to smoke, and counting to ten or whatever, in the hope that a distraction will stop you from smoking it for yet a longer while .

Yet why is it that after WW2, so many pregnant mothers smoked, and produced healthy babies? How did all those 60-a-day smokers live into ripe old age, with only a cough to show for it, if that? Could it be that modern cigarettes contain dangerous chemicals these days? Chemicals which are far worse than tobacco itself?

Answer 2

Well......of course there is death.......but you should go to the library and look into lung disorders and the effects smoking has
I have had 2 dear friends die both from smoking.....One was female, and about 30 years old.....she left behind 2 children....she started smoking when she was 12 years old.......
The other one.....was male.and he was older...I belivee he was 68 and like a father to me....he had smoked for many years, starting young of course...but he had stopped almost 18 years before he died.
Smoking doesnt just affect the person who does it...it also affects everyone around them.....and second hand smoke is even more dangerous to the people who don't or have never smoked.
Good Luck and I hope you find what your looking for.....

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I cannot think of a good reason to smoke,if you smoke you are inhaling things that will damage your health,its takes time but never the less it will,smoking is very expensive there loads of things you can no longer do if you smoke

Answer 5

there is quite a lot to cover her and not really enough room in this post. It also depends on how much detail you want to go into, but try putting 'what are the effects of smoking?' into a search engine and/or ask your gp...

good luck

Answer 6

Smoking is dangerous and injurious to our health. It can lead to lung infections-Bronchitis .It is also known to cause carcinoma of the Lungs.Smoking can also affect the unborn child in a pregnant woman

Answer 7

I am a smoker, giving it up this week actually the effects on me are tiredness. very irritable when I haven't had one for a while bad breath stained fingers stinky hair and of course burning money for nothing but a quick fix. other effects of course are heart disease, lung cancer and all the other nasties associated with the nasty habit.

Answer 8

Almost any drug, no matter how mild, when used to excess could have a huge impact on someone's mental ability. Weed has an impact on short-term memory, but it doesn't fit this problem. People's attention span can be affected while they are using weed. It sounds more likely he was stressed and took a few tokes of the good weed to get ready to face school. A sudden relapse with weed is pretty rare. But not a concern if it only happens once. There could be a range of other explainations. Such memory losses could be serious, and there a range of standard tests that can be done (they are paper and pencil tests) to test brain function.

Answer 9

My nan lost some of her toes and fingers due to blood clots caused by smoking, other causes... black lungs due to all the tar, cancer, bad breath, yellow teeth, coughing your guts up each morning.

But if you inject nicotine in to your blood stream you die almost instantly...

Answer 10

Global warming, greenhouse emissions