CONSEQUENCES
Smoking is one among many factors that cause death but probably the biggest one that is preventable. On average few thousand
people die every day because of tobacco and its bad consequences. Actually, smoking kills more people than the worst
epidemic diseases. It doesn't cause only bad smell on clothes, yellow teeth and unpleasant smell in your mouth but also
many serious diseases.
Smoking might influence 17 different sorts of cancer of which lung cancer is the most obvious and often. Besides this cancer
in throat, gullet, mouth cavity, oesophagus, pancreas, stomach, kidney and bladder are also smoking diseases. Smoking also
causes chronicle cough, bronchitis and other diseases on lungs. It influences other specific diseases like asthma, angina,
fever, shiver, … Inhaling of tobacco smoke is harmful also for the heart and veins, because nicotine is one of the leading
causes of heart attack and tobacco smoke itself narrows coronaries. Besides, smoking does harm also to other veins and
accelerates sclerosis of arteries, which causes bad circulation in legs. This is why some smokers after the age of 40 feel
pain in the calf. They have to stop often, while walking, until the pain similar to a spasm is over. The disease progress
is very obvious if the smoker doesn't give up his bad habit. Lately, there are more and more people, whose legs have to
be cut because of the total artery obstruction.
Nicotine does harm also to digestive organs because it demolishes the balance of acids in stomach. Its consequence is
abscess on stomach. This disease can be cured in case that person stops smoking. Long-lasting smoking can also cause
impotence by older smokers and is also the cause that the skin gets older and wrinkled earlier.
Lately, the cause of smoking on health of new-borns is more and more pointed out. Actually, children whose mothers have
been smoking during their pregnancy weigh less when born and they also can be born less developed. Nicotine influences
woman's fertility, which is often lowered, but there are also more abortions within mothers - smokers than within
non-smokers.
It is well known that a smoker who smokes 10-20 cigarettes a day lives on average 5 years less than a non-smoker does.
Some smokers even like this statistic, because they do not want to live in this world very long. But they are not aware of
dying, which is often very slow and even painful.
One of the most important bad consequences is passive smoking. Smoker's organism is usually used to poisonous substances
whereas the non-smoker's organism is not. This is why smoking does harm also to non-smokers. It has been found out that a
non-smoker living with a smoker who smokes about 2 boxes cigarettes per day inhales the same quantity of tobacco smoke as
he smoke 3 cigarettes per day. It's also dangerous when a non-smoker drives car when others in the car smoke. This can
really weaken driver's physical ability, he can also get pains in eyes and headache. Passive smokers are especially
endangered people with asthma, hearth diseases and other sensible people.
Smoking has lots of harmful consequences but they are not all so bad. It has been proved that the organism after giving up
smoking starts repairing the damage. Real recovery is seen within about 5 years after giving up smoking. And about 15 years
later the mortality of ex-smokers is similar to the one of non-smokers.
LUNG CANCER
About 50 years ago, lung cancer was still a very rare disease. Sometimes it was found out during the autopsy on a dead body
but was otherwise described rarely. However, the number of people ill of cancer increases every year and even more rapidly
as the number of people with any other cancer disease. Lung cancer is more often a man- than a woman-disease.
Chances for going down with lung cancer depend on the cigarettes smoked per day. An average smoker risks about 10X more to
get lung cancer than a non-smoker does, however, a passionate smoker who smokes few packets per day risks even 20X more.
The same chances grow also with smoking years. Statistics show that with the doubling years from 10 to 20 the risk
increases for 16X. It has also been shown in several experiments that tobacco smoke includes substances that cause cancer.
To treat lung cancer it must first be found out. For this an X-ray picture of chest is very important, where doctors can
distinguish unusual shadows in lungs. X-ray is recommended to all smokers after 40, who can notice some changes in their
cough or they can even go down with pneumonia. Although, similar shadows can also be signs for other diseases.
In case the doctor predicts lung cancer the treatment goes on with other methods. If the cancer is detected very late there
are only few chances to get over. Such patient is treated with radioactive rays, what usually stop cancer-expansion,
embellish pains and lengthen patient's life.
Only by giving up smoking you can partially reduce the danger of falling ill of lung cancer.
CHRONICLE BRONCHITIS
All over the World chronicle bronchitis is the most common chronicle lung disease. There are a lot of things that affect it
and the most serious is smoking. In the late age it is almost everyday disease, which can be recognised by continuous cough
and mucous, sometimes even purulent expectoration. Patients treat their chronicle bronchitis usually only as oppression
and not as a disease although it can lead to death. We can search the reason for such behaviour in fact that people know the
cause of their trouble - cigarette, but they just cannot give it up.
Chronicle bronchitis affects work ability, invalidity and also mortality. It is well known that chronicle bronchitis is
almost the most common cause for staying out of work.
The beginning of the chronicle bronchitis has its foundation in the fact that lungs are not successful anymore in fighting
against harmful influences from the surroundings. One of them is the air, which comes into lung constantly, and brings a lot
of gases and physical particles in, what all comes to alveoli. Considering the level of air pollution, which is not very
high, non-smokers do not have such problems with breathing some poisonous substances. On the other hand, air pollution very
rarely affects smokers, because they are much more affected by inhaling tobacco smoke, which consists of 100 million more
harmful substances and parts as the most polluted air in London after the great catastrophe. In that time about 4000 people
died, smokers however inhale these poisons day after day. Still, lungs can fight against these factors when they still have
some power. But when the concentration of the substances becomes too high and the mucus does not secrete fast enough it must
be secreted by a man, by his constant chronicle cough. The mucus which has some time been kept back in respiratory pathways
is a perfect place for multiplication of bacteria. This can be a cause for gasping, when patients after longer physical work
claim to get gasped very fast. For example, first patient gasps by a quick rise on few stairs, but later because of the
trachea contraction he gasps already after an easier work.
Chronicle bronchitis can change the structure of respiratory pathways so much that it can curtail lungs' and heart's
function.
The number of people sickened of chronicle bronchitis can fall only when the air pollution gets lower or when smokers
give up their habit. Still, if they will not be totally safe from chronicle bronchitis, they can at least be saved from
everyday cough up of mucous expectoration, which stands still in respiratory pathways during the night.
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