Myxedema

Smoking is harmful and addictive. That contain more than 5000 chemicals. Smoking causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general.

1. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.

2. If nobody smoked, one of every three cancer deaths in the United States would not happen.

3. Smoking causes an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.

4. An estimated 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.

Smoking and Health Risks

1. Cardiovascular disease :-

- Coronary heart disease

- Peripheral vascular disease

- Abdominal aortic aneurysm

2. Respiratory disease :-

- Lung cancer

- Bronchitis

- Chronic airway obstruction

- Emphysema

3. Cancers :-

- Acute myeloid leukemia

- Cancer of oral cavity

- Cancer of the pharynx

- Cancer of esophagus

- Lung cancer

- Cancer of cervix

- Cancer of esophagus

- Bladder canccer

- Stomach cancer

- Lung cancer

- Kidney cancer

4. Other effects :-

- Infertility

- Preterm delivery

- Low birth weight

- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

[ so, STOP SMOKING ]