Effects of Tobacco Use Smokers' Lungs are Harmful Results
Smokers lungs are one of the harmful effects of tobacco use. The worst kind is the development of lung cancer, which is one of the leading types. Guess what else smoking does?
The habit is so harmful that it poses plenty of other dangers on your health. Examples of other negative health effects of smoking are respiratory diseases.
Tobacco includes cigars, cigarettes and even those smokeless cigars. It is also implicated in esophageal adenocarcinoma, one of the rare types of cancer.
What Smoking Does
What other dangers besides a smoker's lungs do you face, if you smoke and you are female?
Damaged Reproductive Health
Smoking is harmful to your reproductive health. It reduces your fertility.
If you are pregnant, you face a higher risk of miscarriage, premature birth or stillbirth of your baby, or a baby with low birth-weight.
Cataracts and Macular Degeneration
Smoking is linked to cataracts and another eye disease called macular degeneration. Both lead to blindness.
Peptic Ulcers
Aside from giving you a smoker's lungs, another adverse consequence of tobacco on your health is peptic ulcers. You face a higher risk if you worry too much AND you smoke.
Thinning of Bones
If you are a female, you are more vulnerable to bone thinning especially as you age. If you smoke, your risk doubles. And here's another bad news -- if you are experiencing so much stress, the risk increases some more. See Definition of Stress and Its Negative Effects.
Sexual Impotence or Erectile Dysfuntion
Male smokers are found to be more likely to encounter problems in their sexual functions. This is because smoking causes poor blood circulation.
Allergies
Cigarette smoke contains a number of irritants. Research indicates that it may aggravate allergies and people with allergies are more sensitive to it.
The best way on prevention of allergy attacks is to avoid second hand smoke.
More Harmful Effects of Smoking
The dangers of smoking are not limited to making you sick. The ill-effects of tobacco use are also visible on your...
Physical Appearance
The toxic chemicals in that stick of cigarette darken your lips and reduce the supply of blood to your skin, causing you to have a paler and more wrinkled skin.
One of the effects of tobacco use is early aging. Smokers usually look older than their age.
Oral Health
It stains your teeth and gums. It may also lead to gum diseases such as bleeding or pyorrhea, swollen gums and bad breath.
Quitting smoking brings a lot of benefits. One of the most important benefit is prevention of many life-threatening diseases associated with tobacco use.
And if you still don't quit and you smoke around your family, please know that the effects of second hand smoke are far deadlier.
