By now, most people
are well aware that smoking causes lung cancer. Cigarettes, pipes,
cigars, and chewing tobacco kill more than 434,000 Americans each
year accounting for one out of five premature deaths in this
country. Lung cancer is just the first in a long list of tobacco
related illnesses:
Bladder Cancer - Smoking
causes 40% of all cases of bladder cancer.
Breast Cancer - Women
who smoke are 75% more likely to develop breast cancer.
Cervical Cancer - Up
to one third of all cases of cervical cancer are directly
attributable to smoking.
Childhood Respiratory
Ailments - Children exposed to parents tobacco smoke have six times
as many respiratory infections as kids of nonsmoking
parents.
Diabetes - Smoking
decreases the body's absorption of insulin.
Emphysema - Smoking
accounts for up to 85% of all deaths attributable to
emphysema.
Esophageal Cancer -
Smoking accounts for 80% of all cases of esophageal
cancer.
Gastrointestinal
Cancer - Smoking at least doubles the risk of cancer of the stomach
and duodenum.
Heart Disease -
Smokers are up to four times more likely to develop cardiovascular
disease than nonsmokers.
Infertility - Couples
in which at least one member smokes are more than three times more
likely to have trouble conceiving.
Kidney Cancer -
Smoking causes 40% of all cases of kidney cancer.
Mouth Cancer - Tobacco
causes the vast majority of all cancers of the mouth.
Premature Aging -
Constant exposure to tobacco smoke prematurely wrinkles the facial
skin and yellows the teeth and fingernails.
Stroke - Smoking
doubles the risk of stroke among men and women.
Throat Cancer - The
vast majority of cases of pharyngeal cancer are directly related to
smoking.
While smoking has
officially been recognized as a cause of lung cancer, scientists
have also confirmed another tobacco danger, that breathing the air
containing someone else's smoke (second hand smoke) poses many of
the same risk as smoking yourself.
Doctors and Scientists
have been reporting on the dangers of tobacco and smoking for nearly
four decades. Many serious illnesses are directly attributed to
smoking. If you want to live a longer, healthier life quit
smoking today!
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