Effects of Cigarette Smoking

Cigarettes are more harmful than ever.

According to an European report, it is said that smoking cigarettes can cause even more health problems than lungs cancer, including blindness, diabetes, erectile of dysfunction and liver cancer.

Even through smoking ratios are way down in the US, 18% of people are here now smoke compared to 42% five decades ago; modern cigarettes are more potent and more dangerous than ever.

The question is that how cigarettes are made and the chemicals they contain have changed over the years and some of those changes may be a factor in higher lung cancer risks.

According the US health experts, it is said that active smoking can cause a common form of blindness that is called age-related macular degeneration as well as diabetes, colorectal cancer and liver cancer. Smoking can also cause tuberculosis, erectile dysfunction, facial clefts in infants, ectopic pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation, impaired immune function and worsens the outlook for cancer patients. Those who do not smoke but are exposed to second hand smoke face an increased risk of stroke.

It is said that due to smoking more than 20 million people in the United States have died from diseases and illness caused by second hand smoke.

smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States killing nearly half a million Americans a year.

The cost of smoking in America is more than 5240 billion a year in direct medical care and other economic factor.

It is the actual burning of a cigarette that produces the complex chemical mixture of more than 7000 elements that cause a wide range of diseases.

The patterns of tobacco use are changing as some smokers turn toward nicotine, containing e-cigarettes and other products like small flavored cigars.

Nicotine along is far from risk free particularly during pregnancy when it can interfere with fetal brain development cause stillbirth and premature delivery.

Nicotine is addictive that smoking impacts nearly every organ of the body, and that there is no risk free level of exposure to second hand smoke.

In all smoking has been found to cause more than a dozen kinds of cancer and even more chronic diseases.