Smoking cigarettes doesn’t kill everyone. If only it did! Instead, it makes people suffer. It causes some really terrible diseases and it makes people suffer gruesome fate at times. Let’s look at some of the most horrible diseases caused by smoking:
1.
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer does. Smoking cigarettes
is the primary cause of lung cancers, responsible for more than 80 % deaths.
Most people do not have a chance of surviving within 5 years of diagnosis.
2.
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
COPD makes it hard to breathe. It is an obstructive lung disease. It leads
to serious long-term disability. It leads to an early death. It is one of the
most tiring diseases as it makes it difficult to be active, to play, and to
climb stairs and slowly makes it exhausting or impossible to walk even short
distance. It’s been known to cause people being stuck in homes and 80 % of all
COPD diseases is a result of smoking cigarettes.
3.
Heart Disease
Heart is not aloof from the hazards of smoking. Your heart suffers from the
blockages and narrowing of arteries, all thanks to smoking. This means your
heart receives less blood and oxygen and also circulates less to your body. So
if you don’t want to let your heart suffer, quitting smoking is a good idea to
consider.
4.
Stroke
Due to the effect of smoking on your heart and your arteries, your body can
suffer from a triggered stroke. Since your body is receiving less blood and the
blood supply to brain may be temporarily blocked, your brain cells tend to get
deprived of oxygen and start dying. A stroke can cause altered brain function,
slurred speech, death or worse still paralysis. A life of dependency is what
smoking can lead to.
5.
Asthma
A chronic lung disease, Asthma makes it difficult to let air move in and out
of your lungs. It makes breathing very laborious and difficult. Cigarette smoke
causes irritation in air passages and triggers severe and sudden asthma
attacks. In fact, even passive smoking of cigarette smoke can trigger / cause
Asthma.
6.
Reproductive Effects in Women
Smoking can cause the fertilized egg to implant
elsewhere. It can cause serious complications in pregnancy and can also be
life-threatening. Smoking can reduce fertility in women and makes it difficult
for a smoking woman to get pregnant. Not just this, it can cause a lot of other
reproductive complications.
7.
Low Birth-Weight and Premature Babies
Smoking in women affects not just them, but also
their babies. Pregnant women can face a lot of complications due to smoking;
however, they do not suffer alone. Smoking during pregnancy can cause premature
child-birth. It can also cause a baby to be born with low birth-weight. Babies born too small or too early usually
develop teir own health complications and even have an increased risk of death.
8.
Diabetes
Smoking increases the probability of getting type
2 diabetes. In fact, smokers have a 30 – 40 % higher probability of getting
type 2 diabetes. Further, diabetes doesn’t come alone. It usually comes with a
conglomerate of more problems like heart and kidney diseases, complications
like poor blood flow to legs and feet, nerve damage, blindness and possible
gangrenes and amputations. Smoking can increase the risks of all such diseases
by increasing the risk of the root caus – Diabetes.
9.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Blindness and
Cataracts
Smoking can affect eyes. It can result in damaged
eyes and vision loss. It also increases macular degeneration that is
age-related. In fact smoking is one of the leading causes of blindness in
senior citizens.
10. Over
10 Other Types of Cancer, Including Cervix, Colon, Liver, Pancreas and Stomach
Cancer
But of course, saying that smoking is the cause
for cancer is an understatement. For all types of cancers, which are almost
more than 10 smokers have an extraordinarily high propensity of suffering from
cancers. It can cause not just the primary lung cancer but also enhance the
development of secondary cancers of various types.
