Bad Effects of Smoking – Makes Your Life Worse

There is strong medical evidence that smoking is associated with more than two dozen diseases and disorders. It has a negative impact on nearly every organ in the body and reduces overall health spending. Smoking tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death and has negative health consequences for people of all ages: unborn babies, infants, children, adolescents, adults and seniors.

Smoking leads people to develop health problems like cancer, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), organ damage and heart disease. These diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active - and can be fatal. Each time a smoker lights up, that single cigarette takes about 50-20 minutes away from the person's life.

How Does Smoke Affect Cholesterol?

Smoking tobacco in any form, even cigars, will have the effect of increasing LDL cholesterol and decreasing HDL cholesterol. It is also slightly increases triglycerides. This is a triple whammy, because it violates your cholesterol. Cholesterol has a direct correlation with coronary artery disease also known as atherosclerosis.

Smoking Cause Heart Disease

The current data show that the harmful effects of passive smoking are the result of many components in tobacco smoke. These include carbon monoxide, nicotine, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and others.

Carbon monoxide produced by passive smoking competes with oxygen for binding sites on red blood cells. This reduces the blood's ability to deliver oxygen to the heart and brings the heart muscle's ability to use oxygen to create adenosine triphosphate. Carbon monoxide also increases the amount of lactate in venous blood.

What about cigar and pipe tobacco?

People who smoke cigars or pipes seem to have a higher risk of death from coronary heart disease (and possibly stroke) but their risk is not as great as with cigarettes. This is probably because they are less likely to inhale the smoke. Currently there is very little scientific information on cigars and pipe tobacco and cardiovascular diseases, especially among young men who represent the vast majority of cigar users.

Smoking Cause Acne In Women

New findings link Acne in women who smoke. Italian researchers from the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome have found that smoking causes acne in human and affects women the most. They discovered a certain type of acne known as NIA (non inflammatory acne), which is common in smoker. This type of acne in smoker is characterized by blocked pores, large blackheads, which are less inflamed than normal acne.

Increased risk of disease. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and often if they are around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their body lacks nutrients they need to grow, develop and fight off illness properly.

The report concludes that smoking reduces the overall health of smokers, contributing to such conditions as hip fractures, complications from diabetes, increased wound infections following surgery, and a broad range of reproductive complications. For every premature death caused each year by smoking, there are at least 20 smokers living with a serious smoking disease.