what are the effects of smoking?

Answer 1

Chronic lung disease, cancer and the obvious....DEATH.

Answer 2

I am 59 yrs old from US but live in Thailand where very few of the women smoke. And the 30-40yr old women look 20yrs younger than those ladies I see that smoke & I am not exadurating. And also NO WRINKLES NOTTA !! And there skin is like Baby soft skin.At first I thought the women looked younger because of the food they eat, 90% veggies 8% fruit & 2% meat which i am sure is a factor. But if they are smoking the skin is not soft, raw-hide looking, & they look not fresh!! Just one man's observation.
JerDon
PS#1 just go to yr 20 yr school graduation class & look at the smokers & non-smokers! Now thats an eye opener too, especially some of those hot cheerleaders!!! Now not so hot! Now are they??????????????

Answer 3

This information has been public knowledge and vastly known by everyone from pre-schoolers on up, for about 40 years.

Answer 4

If you want the straight answers, you don't often go to the manufacturer to get them. In this case, it's a little different. Phillip Morris, a US company which makes several different brands of cigarettes, posts this on their own website:

"Philip Morris USA (PM USA) agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. There is no safe cigarette.

"These are and have been the messages of the U.S. Surgeon General and public health authorities worldwide. Smokers and potential smokers should rely on these messages in making all smoking-related decisions."

I have never in my entire life understood this dichotomy. Cigarettes have absolutely no redeeming value. Smoking cigarettes does not provide your body with any benefit. It's all negatives. And they freely tell you this, on their own site. But they continue to market and sell them, because nicotine is addictive.

If that alone is not enough to explain what smoking does to you, look at these statistics:

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Number of deaths per year attributed to tobacco in the United States: 400,000.

Number of deaths per hour: 45.

Number of deaths due to:
Cardiovascular disease: Almost 180,000.
Obstructive lung disease (chronic bronchitis and emphysema (defined): 65,000

Risk for a smoker dying of lung cancer, compared to a never-smoker:
Male: 22 times
Female: 12 times

Number of scientific studies on the health effects of tobacco, approximate: 50,000.

Percentage of United States adults who smoked in 1993: 25

Percentage in 1965: 42

Number of years of life smoking costs the average smoker: 7

Number of identified carcinogens (defined) in tobacco smoke: 43

Estimated 1993 health care costs due to smoking, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: total $50 billion. This figure includes:
$26.9 billion for hospital costs
$15.5 billion for doctors
$4.9 billion in nursing home costs
$1.8 billion for prescription drugs
$900 million for home-health care expenditures

Number of times "addiction" is listed on compulsory cigarette warnings (in United States): 0.

Marketing and promotional budget of tobacco companies, (1993): $6 billion.

Number of cigarette advertisements this money bought that mention addiction, habituation, dependence or the difficulty most smokers experience in quitting: 0.

Revenues of the U.S. tobacco companies, 1991: $32 billion.

Percentage of adult smokers who had tried cigarettes by 18th birthday: 80.

Percentage of smokers age 12 to 17, according to a 1992 Gallup poll, who want to quit: 66.

Percentage of NCAA baseball athletes who use "smokeless tobacco": 57.
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It's not difficult to find information about the effects of smoking on the body, and how addictive it is, and how difficult it is to quit. The manufacturers themselves give it to you.

HTH

Answer 5

bronchitis, emphysema, cancer lung
atherosclerosis leading to angina, and myocardial infarct, and also cerebrovascular stroke,
cancer cervix, pancreas, and kidney
gastritis, and intrauterine growth retardation .
....in one word.....QUIT SMOKING

Answer 6

A VERY PAINFUL DEATH.