Smoking can cause many serious and potentially fatal human diseases. The negative health effects of smoking are well known and include increased risks of various cancers, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and more. Research shows smokers die years earlier on average than non-smokers. Smoking causes not only active smokers harm, but also exposes others to second-hand smoke. Given its widespread negative health impacts and addictive nature, efforts are needed to reduce smoking prevalence.
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Smoking can cause many serious and potentially fatal human diseases. The negative health effects of smoking are well known and include increased risks of various cancers, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and more. Research shows smokers die years earlier on average than non-smokers. Smoking causes not only active smokers harm, but also exposes others to second-hand smoke. Given its widespread negative health impacts and addictive nature, efforts are needed to reduce smoking prevalence.
Smoking can cause many serious and potentially fatal human diseases. The negative health effects of smoking are well known and include increased risks of various cancers, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and more. Research shows smokers die years earlier on average than non-smokers. Smoking causes not only active smokers harm, but also exposes others to second-hand smoke. Given its widespread negative health impacts and addictive nature, efforts are needed to reduce smoking prevalence.
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Smoking can cause many serious and potentially fatal human diseases. The negative health effects of smoking are well known and include increased risks of various cancers, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and more. Research shows smokers die years earlier on average than non-smokers. Smoking causes not only active smokers harm, but also exposes others to second-hand smoke. Given its widespread negative health impacts and addictive nature, efforts are needed to reduce smoking prevalence.
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Diverse Human Life Threatening Diseases Due to Smoking
By Sri Astutik (14 August 2009)
The positive impact of smoking has not been found in an article or public opinion except profits for producers and the vendors. That there was calls and calls from various parties to avoid such thing as a cigarette. However, until today, despite many appeals and warnings about the dangers of smoking, but still many people on this earth who smoke.
In fact, everyone knows that the negative effects of smoking are many and varied for the health of the human body. Such as tar, nicotine, substance, and chemical gases in cigarettes it is common knowledge has the potential to germinate so many diseases. In the packaging alone is a warning.
In today's market also encountered many cigarettes that claim their products contain less tar and nicotine. But still the gases generated as a side effect of smoking a potential hazard for the smoker (active) and for those around them (passive).
According to research there are 10 types of cancer caused by smoking. Also mentioned also that male smokers die 13.2 years younger than non-smokers, while female smokers die 14.5 years younger.
Smoking can cause cancer of the mouth, vocal cords and esophagus. Women smokers have a possibility of 13 times higher lung cancer than nonsmokers. While male smokers 23 times higher lung cancer than nonsmokers.
Stomach and gastric cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, when the fatal can cause diabetes mellitus, diabetes, cervical cancer, blood cancer or leukemia.
Smokers are 3 times higher risk of suffering from cataracts can cause blindness. Cigarettes can be a major cause of stroke and brain damage. Smokers are 10 times higher risk of suffering from periodontitis (gum burns that lead to infection) that can damage the delicate tissue of the bone.
Other impacts may occur pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, heart failure, heart attacks, hypertension, and stroke.Infertility, premature babies, babies born underweight (LBW), and respiratory disorders.
To prevent the adverse effects of hazardous materials entering and tertimbunnya cigarettes into the respiratory tract, smokers should consume sources of chlorophyll and antioxidants regularly. Not forgetting of course the most appropriate advice is beginning to change, reduce, and eliminate the poor living habits like smoking.
In addition to smokers, in our beloved country, the number was very much second-hand smoke. National socioeconomic survey in 2001 showed that 91.8 percent of the population admitted to smoking at home when being with his family. As a result, 97.5 million people to easily suck cigarette smoke at home. Of that amount, 43 million of whom are infants to children 14 years old. Smoking is an addiction that has plagued the behavior globally and is endemic in Indonesia. This makes it a common problem that needs filling.
Most families in Indonesia have a family member who has or is becoming active smokers. When smoking becomes addictive behavior in one family member, then the other family members will be badly affected by smoke, including the fetus is still in the womb.
