Does smoking tobacco increase cholesterol level?

Answer 1

Tobacco does not I think actually elevate total cholesterol. There is however some indirect evidence that it shifts the lipid profile. Raising LDL ( bad cholesterol) and lowering HDL ( good cholesterol.

Answer 2

Smoking and elevated cholesterol have similar impacts on your cardiac risk. Smoking dramatically increases the chance of heart disease, but most of the impact is through mechanisms other than cholesterol. No matter what, stopping smoking is good for you, regardless of its impact on cholesterol.

Answer 3

yes to certain extent !But it surely make your arterial wall think and non elastic which promotes the atheromatous growth inside it which allow to clot happen and that will precipitate heart attack !It allows narrowing of the arteries so much so that two type of disease is happening one is called Burger disease and second is called Raynuad disease !In both this narrowing causes dry gangrene of the lower legs to that extent that one has to make amputation of the legs !So be care full and smoke to make ill effect to your self only and in general !Meaning there by smoke at a place where all smokers are gathered and not in public place ! God bless you ! I am always YouRsmE

Answer 4

it sure does.It pushes the bad cholesterol (LDL) up and the good guy (HDL) down.Quitting smoking ASAP is your best option as a high LDL can choke the arteries in your heart and elsewhere.

Answer 5

Yes, as it makes the blood more sticky, thereby the cholesterol forms plaques.

Answer 6

it lowers the amount of HDL (good) cholesterol and raises LDL (bad) cholesterol

Answer 7

yes that's why they connect smoking so much with heart disease

Answer 8

yes very much

Answer 9

yes i heard it does per my doctor.

Answer 10

yes it does.