EFFECTS OF SMOKING

WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS

• Smoking can cause fatal diseases such as pneumonia, emphysema and lung cancer.Smoking causes 84% of deaths from lung cancer and 83% of deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease, including bronchitis.

EMPHYSEMA

• Emphysema gradually damages the air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs, making you progressively more short of breath.

EMPHYSEMA

• This reduces the surface area of the lungs and, in turn, the amount of oxygen that reaches your bloodstream.

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LUNG CANCER

• Lung cancer is one of the most common and serious types of cancer. Around 44,500 people are diagnosed with the condition every year in the UK.

LUNG CANCER

• There are usually no signs or symptoms in the early stages of lung cancer, but many people with the condition eventually develop symptoms including: a persistent cough coughing up blood persistent breathlessness unexplained tiredness and weight loss an ache or pain when breathing or coughing

PNEUMONIA

• 1 in every 100 UK adults develop pneumonia each year?
• More than 50,000 UK adults die of pneumonia each year4. In the UK, it is one of the most common causes of death due to infection in men and women

pneumonia

• If you have a heart condition and have pneumonia, you are four-times more likely to have a heart attack or stroke
• Pneumonia is more common and can be more serious in people that smoke.

Have You Ever Wondered What's In a Cigarette?

• Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These cigarette ingredients include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic,

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NICOTINE

• Nicotine is highly addictive. Smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, and the nicotine reaches your brain in just six seconds. Nicotine in small doses acts as a stimulant to the brain. In large doses, it's a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. In even larger doses, it's a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm.

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SHORT TERM EFFECTS

• smokers often suffer shortness of breath and nagging coughs. They often tire quickly during physical activity. Some other common short-term effects include decreased sense of smell and taste, premature aging of the skin, bad breath, and stained teeth

LONG TERM EFFECTS

• Smoking also damages the arteries. This is why many vascular surgeons refuse to operate on patients with peripheral artery disease (poor blood circulation in the arms and legs) unless they stop smoking. And male smokers have a higher risk of sexual impotence (erectile dysfunction) the longer they smoke.

HOW LIKELY IS OT TO KILL YOU?

• About half of the people who keep smoking will die because of it
• In the United States, tobacco causes nearly 1 in 5 deaths, or about 480,000 premature deaths each year –almost half a million in the US alone. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in world.

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