Dangers of Tobacco
by Geethalakshmi[ Edit ] 2010-02-13 01:26:54
Dangers of Tobacco
Tobacco consumption in any form leads to serious diseases. Tobacco is responsible for many types of cancer like lungs, mouth, stomach, oral, kidney etc. It causes other diseases of urinary bladder, gall bladder, penis, heart and blood. Below are the major effects of Tobacco:
Lung disease: Smokers are affected by chronic bronchitis and emphysema growing diseases. These are hard to recover and 80% people die from this disease. It causes difficulty in breathing because blockage in lungs. Pneumonia to be a common disease of smokers, which often proves fatal. Danger
Coronary heart disease: Smoking increases blood cholesterol which causes high blood pressure. The risk of heart attack to smokers is three times more than the others.
Blockage in the leg veins: People, who smoke, develop clots in leg veins 16 times more than others. Patients ignoring the blockage of leg veins are more likely to have gangrene disease.
Brain attack: People who smoke cigarettes every day have more chances of brain attack than others.
Lung Cancer: Largest death in world is due to lung cancer. People who start smoking in young age are more likely to have cancer of lung.