Does smoking really kill?

Answer 1

Smoking doesn't kill, it's the cancer that kills.

Answer 2

In answer to Daniel J - 90% of people who develop lung cancer smoke. The others are mainly due to a different kind of lung cancer that is not smoking related.

Don't forget that heart disease and stroke are the other big killers and the cause of these diseases? Dodgy arteries due mainly to smoking plus other factors.

Then there are all the other cancers of the mouth, larynx/voicebox (the one that killed my own mum), oesophagus/foodpipe (which killed a mate's mum) and bladder.

If you smoke then you have a 50% chance it will kill you - it's sort of like tossing a coin and hoping for the best.

The main problem is not only dying, but the fact that it is a long and drawn out death that everyone in the family has to witness. My mum was in hospital for 9 months and never left - well, obviously she did in the end but in a box!

I never preach to patients about smoking because being addicted to it is similar to being addicted to herion. I also don't agree with living in a cotton wool house as something has to get you in the end. However, smoking kills you in a horrible way and so if there is just one favour that you can do for you body it's quitting the evil weed.

Patches help but the release of nicotine is slow so try a nasal spray or inhaler for a fast 'hit' that takes the cravings away.

You can do it.

Good luck!

Answer 3

You bet. There has been an overwhelming body of evidence since the original papers of the 70's. A quick glance at just one college, the Royal college of Physicians, shows over 7000 papers all with studies about the effects of smoking and passive smoking and their dangers to health.

Someone would have to be living with their head in the sand to question the disastrous effects of smoking.

Answer 4

I'm sure that if you are around a lorry park or a bus depot when the vehicles are started in the morning you would be in more danger from what you are breathing than if you smoked.
I am a non smoker but I don't object to anybody smoking at all.

Answer 5

well depends how you mean, lighting one up doesn't instantly kill you

people can smoke all there lives and die of natural causes

people can smoke and get hit by a car\bus cigs didnt kill them did it?

you do realise everyone is born with cancer,just takes longer to come out in some people

Answer 6

it probably does i am a smoker but i do wonder how accurate the research actually is for example if they say that say 3 in ten smokers get lung cancer how many people would have actually got it if they didn t smoke it is a hard one to figure out though and i do not believe that there is any real evidence to support either theories god i bet i upset lots of anti smokers now

Answer 7

Smoker< I think that it can kill. But tell me this how is it that people who have never smoked a day in their life, never around people that smoke end up having cancer. or lung cancer. Everything we breath, eat i beleive can kill us

Answer 8

As a healthcare provider I say YES. But you know there are fates worse than death. They also contribute to wrinkles and rapid aging of skin. Tobacco smoking men suffer much higher rates of erectile dysfunction. A stroke that causes you to be paralysed on one side can make death seem attractive. Smoking parents have children who suffer higher rates of ear infections and asthma. It just goes on and on. Choosing to smoke may be YOUR decision, but it effects so many others. Other people are forced into YOUR decision through secondhand smoke. And the people who love you will bear the burden of your ill health and untimely death.

Answer 9

its not good for you we all know that it does things to your heart and lungs etc but as for saying it kills i suppose it depends on the individuals how many you smoke my nan started smoking at the age of 12died in her late 80is as did my dad but both deaths were not related to smoking but to something else .so i think it does depend on the person who smokes i know people will disagree with me and yes it is bad for you but everyone has the chioce as to smoke or not .

Answer 10

yes it can I am a smoker but I look at this way we all have to die of something why stop something that you enjoy, tommorrow I could go out and get killed by a bus, die happy or die miserable I'd go for the first one, these foods that they say we should not eat incase we get this or that if we listiened to all the health warnings we wouldn't eat and as for medicines if you read half the side affects you want to take them.

Answer 11

Smoking increases the risk of cancer and heart disease and even the smallest amounts can damage your health&that of those around you, look at all the studies that have been done its quite obvious smoking is the leading cause of preventable death