Smoking increases your risk of heart disease and lung cancer.
The Surgeon General has said it is our number 1 cause of preventable, premature death.
If that is not enough to keep you away from tobacco, it also increases your risk of the following:
The Surgeon General has said it is our number 1 cause of preventable, premature death.
If that is not enough to keep you away from tobacco, it also increases your risk of the following:
- Cataracts -The more you smoke the higher the risk, up to triple the risk of nonsmokers.
Quitting helps but does not bring your risk back down to nonsmokers. - Macular degeneration -Smoking can double your risk in getting this leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older.
- Stomach, duodenal ulcers, indigestion and gastric reflux (gerd) -Some of the reasons are not clear.
For one thing, smoking weakens the strength of the valve between your stomach and esophagus that prevents reflux stomach contents.
Also smoking delays the healing time of ulcers. - Osteoporosis -The longer and more you smoke, the greater the risk of fractures as you get older.
Also the fractures will take longer to heal.
It has to do with the decrease in blood circulation to the bones.
In fact many back surgeons will not perform a bone graft, spinal fusion surgery on smokers because the graft is almost sure to fail. - Degenerative disc disease -Discs are cushions between each of your vertebrae or backbones.
Degeneration of the discs may lead to increased back pain.
Smoking speeds up this process.
- Miscarriages -Smoking not only increases risk of miscarriages, but causes stillbirths, premature deliveries and underweight babies.
- Erectile dysfunction -Smokers are about 50 percent more likely to develop ED than nonsmokers.
- Cancers of the throat, mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, kidney bladder and leukemia
- Wrinkles
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