Harmful Effects of Smoking

Harmful Effects of Smoking

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Smoking isn't good for one's body. Especially if you've been smoking a pack a day, and for a long period of time. But what is the full extent of the effects of smoking on your body?

The effects of smoking varies from person to person as it will depend on the person's vulnerability to the chemical in cigarette or tobacco smoke. It will also depend on the number of cigarette sticks a person smokes per day, the age when the person first started to smoke, and the number of years the person has been smoking.

According to recent studies, every year hundreds of thousands of people all over the globe die from medical complications caused by smoking. Aside from the stench it leaves on one's clothes, breath, and hair, it also has other complications. Here are some of the different effects of smoking:
Immediate effects upon smoking a cigarette stick:

• Raises a person's blood pressure and heart rate.
• Decreases a person's blood flow to body extremities like the fingers and toes.
• The brain and the nervous system is stimulated for a short time and then reduced.
• Dizziness.
• Nausea.
• Watery eyes.
• Hyperacidity.
• Weakened sense of taste and smell.
• Loss of appetite.

Other effects:

• Shortness of breath.
• Chronic coughing.
• Reduced overall fitness.
• Yellowish stain on the smoker's fingers and teeth.
• Smokers experience more coughs and colds as compared to non-smokers.
• Difficulty recovering from minor illnesses.
• Impotence for men, infertility for women.
• Facial wrinkles appear at an early age, making them look older than non-smokers of the same age.

Because they experience these different side effects, they have a higher risk of developing diseases like:

• respiratory tract infections (like pneumonia and chronic bronchitis)
• emphysema (collapse of the small airways in the lungs)
• heart attack and other coronary diseases
• different kinds of cancers (lungs, throat, mouth, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, and stomach)
• stomach ulcers
• peripheral vascular disease due to a decreased blood flow to the legs

Once a person becomes addicted to cigarettes, they may find themselves experiencing different withdrawal symptoms when they decide to stop. These withdrawal symptoms include:

• increased nervousness and tension
• agitation
• loss of concentration
• change in sleep patterns
• headaches
• coughs
• strong cravings

For pregnant women, it is important to know that the growing child in their womb may suffer if they continue smoking. The effects of smoking to a growing fetus include: low birth weight, premature birth, or stillbirth. Even those who do not smoke are at risk of incurring diseases. Second hand smoke may cause lung cancer or heart problems to those who passively inhale smoke exhaled by smokers.
Smoking may make a person look cool or macho, but you should consider more than just how it would make you look. Keep in mind that smoking has harmful effects that can end up claiming your life. Before you light up your next cigarette, think of the various harmful effects of smoking and if you'd want that to happen to you.


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HARMFUL EFFECTS OF SMOKING

     Although smoking makes people relax and smokers support the economy by paying taxes, it cannot erase the fact that it is very harmful to our body. I personally think that one of the most useless things the man had ever invented was the cigarette. Instead of inventing a material that would make a human prolong his/her life they rather make cigarettes to earn millions of money. The fact that it is dangerous to our health makes me sick. 

     As I've read my chosen article, I noticed that most of its effects are negative. Not just for the smokers but also to the second hand smokers. Worst,  the second hand smokers are the most affected because they are the one who inhaled the smoke that could cause respiratory diseases.   

     I really, really hate smokers but at the same time are I really do pity them. I also saw smoker as a selfish person because they didn't care for their love ones. When you started to smoke you will get addicted and it's very hard to avoid and stop what you've started and in the end you'll end  up six feet under the ground, leaving their love ones behind. This kind of things is very addictive that's why people suffer of changes when they are being advice to  stop smoking. In my opinion, even if they suffer from cravings of cigarette they must persevere and not succumb to temptations because it 's  for their own goodness, not just for them but also to the people around them. 

     If we don't want this things to happen like;

 teeth are damged

 death is nearer

 Fatal lung cancer

 birth defects of babies

    

      As early as a child, we shouldn't be engaging in smoking. We should left this kind of habit beacause it is not good for our health. If you want to relax just do some things like exercising, sleeping  or eat a menthol candy. We should be responsible for ourselves and do the right thing like exercising, eating healthy food and  getting enough sleep. In this way we can still enjoy and prolong our life.

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