Harmful Effects Of Smoking Cigarettes

Effects Of Smoking &
Harmful Effects Of Smoking
Cigarettes and more specifically tobacco smoke are full of chemicals and poisons. As you discovered in our chemicals in cigarettes section tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, many of which make smoking harmful.


Effects of Tobacco Smoke
Smoking KILLS
Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking.

One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.

Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.

This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
amputated.

Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.

Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.

Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.

Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.

Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.

Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.

Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.

Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.

In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.

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Dr. Ambumani Ramadoss, India’s health minister is on a mission against public smoking in India. He has now come up with yet another novel smoking deterrent by deciding to penalize companies for their employees smoking on premises. Those companies who are caught with employees smoking within the premises, will be fined Rs 5000 per employee per violation.

Though the enforcement of such codes of conduct is arguable and debatable, Dr. Ramadoss is sending the right message that needs to be sent from the desk of the health minister. His relentless pursuit of the issue of smoking, puts it squarely in the limelight, and forces the people to take a second look at the seemingly innocuous habit that poisons our bodies and pollutes the air we breathe.

Results of a survey published yesterday revealed that there was a very high prevalence of tobacco use amongst India’s school teachers, with an average of 30% teachers using tobacco overall. The tobacco use amongst teachers from India’s northeastern states was shown to be almost 50%. Researchers have predicted that India faces one million smoking-related deaths per year within another 2 years. That is about 3000 people dying from smoking every day. And the number of smokers goes down everywhere else, India has been showing a stready increase in the number of smokers.

Just over a month ago, Ramadoss asked Bollywood’s bigshots not to smoke on the silver screens as that seems to influence the younger generation into taking up the habit. One may agree or disagree with Ramadoss on how he is publicizing his message, and how much he loves the press and all the publicity. I think in this particular case, Ramadoss is on the right track, because he has definitely managed to get people’s ear, and the media’s ear.

Unlike some other cabinet ministers who seem to be occupying portfolios they are little interested in, Ramadoss seems to be enjoying his day job. So no matter of he is ultimately successful in making people smoke a few less packs a day, Ramadoss, is doing something a person in his chair should be doing. In this day and age, that would make him a person of high integrity and morals.

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Pakistan, Jinnah, Wadias and the American anthem
An IAS officer’s nightmare of lustful, lascivious stares comes true

Most bizarre
Man bites cobra to teach it a lesson
Air India serving snakes on board?
Monkeys in India’s capital
Masala missiles and curry bombs
Indian Politician says 90% Gurus don’t wear underwear
Cowporal punishment for lower-caste school kids
Gajendra’s wooden khatola
Man marries underage daughter, convinces wife he is obeying God’s will
Man weds dog in Tamilnadu
Delhi wife beats man up at secret second wedding



Indian Women
Stripped and paraded naked in India
Women’s day? Stop wasting my time!
What’s next? the colors of their panties?
Suswagatam, Sunita!
OK. India has a woman president. Now what?
India’s first political party of, by and for women
Finally, Mona Suri rests in peace
Why is our prostitution act named SITA?
Top 10 ways to deal with Mumbai’s molesters
Maria Montessori, the Indian theosophist
Ten reasons Maharashtra politicians banned seminude cheerleading
Indian government decides against a tougher Sati law
Top 5 explanations for the president’s gesture
Numb and dumber - a million female babies murdered in India
India’s Supreme court errs on dowry, okays customary practices
Human trafficking - a sickening trend
Taslima and Fatwa
Memories of Meerabai
India’s northeastern states are safest for women
Lata Mangeshkar wants to visit Pakistan