| There is strong medical evidence that smoking | | | | People who smoke cigars or pipes seem to have a |
| tobacco is related to more than two dozen diseases | | | | higher risk of death from coronary heart disease (and |
| and conditions. It has negative effects on nearly every | | | | possibly stroke), but their risk isn't as great as that of |
| organ of the body and reduces overall health. Smoking | | | | cigarette smokers. This is probably because they're |
| tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable | | | | less likely to inhale the smoke. Currently there's very |
| death and has negative health impacts on people of all | | | | little scientific information on cigar and pipe smoking and |
| ages: unborn babies, infants, children, adolescents, | | | | cardiovascular disease, especially among young men, |
| adults, and seniors. | | | | who represent the vast majority of cigar users. |
| Smoking leads people to develop health problems like | | | | Smoking Cause Acne In Women |
| cancer, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), organ | | | | New findings link Acne in women who smoke. Italian |
| damage, and heart disease. These diseases limit a | | | | researchers from the San Gallicano Dermatological |
| person's ability to be normally active - and can be fatal. | | | | Institute in Rome have found that smoking causes |
| Each time a smoker lights up, that single cigarette | | | | acne in human and affects women the most. They |
| takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life. | | | | discovered a particular type of acne known as NIA |
| How Does Smoke Affect Cholesterol? | | | | (non inflammatory acne), which is common in smoker. |
| Smoking tobacco in any form, even cigars, will have | | | | This type of acne in smoker is characterised by |
| the effect of increasing LDL cholesterol and | | | | blocked pores, large blackheads, which are less |
| decreasing HDL cholesterol. It also slightly increases | | | | inflamed than normal acne. |
| triglycerides. This is a triple whammy because it | | | | Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers |
| negatively affects all your cholesterol levels. | | | | get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than |
| Cholesterol levels have a direct correlation with | | | | nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, |
| coronary artery disease also known as | | | | like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and |
| atherosclerosis. | | | | often if they're just around people who smoke). |
| Smoking Cause Heart Disease | | | | Because teens who smoke as a way to manage |
| The current data demonstrate that the ill effects of | | | | weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies lack |
| secondhand smoke result from many components of | | | | the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and fight off |
| tobacco smoke. These include carbon monoxide, | | | | illness properly. |
| nicotine, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and others. | | | | The report concludes that smoking reduces the overall |
| The carbon monoxide produced by passive smoking | | | | health of smokers, contributing to such conditions as |
| competes with oxygen for binding sites on red blood | | | | hip fractures, complications from diabetes, increased |
| cells. This reduces the blood's ability to deliver oxygen | | | | wound infections following surgery, and a wide range |
| to the heart and compromises the heart muscle's | | | | of reproductive complications. For every premature |
| ability to use oxygen to create adenosine triphosphate. | | | | death caused each year by smoking, there are at |
| The carbon monoxide also increases the amount of | | | | least 20 smokers living with a serious smoking-related |
| lactate in venous blood. | | | | illness. |
| What about cigar and pipe smoking? | | | | |