Hazards of Smoking Cigarettes
Everybody knows that smoking is a harmful habit. But most of the smokers say that they know, that smoking badly affects their body but they don’t complain any diseases. Nothing hurts. But it shouldn’t. Smoking is not a virus or bacteria. It slowly affects the organism. Smoker’s body tries to resist it and this is how nothing worries the smoker. But as a famous proverb say, little strokes fell great oaks.
What is a cigarette smoke?
This is just a dust which is filtered by the lungs of the smoker. Most of the smoke is breathed out, but for the year 800 grams of tar passes through lungs. Cigarette smoke contains of 2 thousands of substance, 100 of them are extremely dangerous for human body.
Smoking particularly affects the heart and blood vessels. Nicotine affects sympathicus which activates endocrine glands. Excessive amount of biologically active hormone is thrown out into blood that narrow the arteries. These arteries supply heart, kidneys and liver with blood. People usually start to smoke in stress, but they enhance it instead of neutralizing.
Smokers lungs
In case of regular nicotine affect fatty degeneration of heart muscle starts.
Nicotine affects on blood coagulation processes. It increases the risk of thrombosis. Nicotine also badly affects oral cavity. It causes enamel damage and increases the risk of caries.
One more dangerous substance which enters the body during smoking is carbon monoxide. It causes active development of atherosclerosis.
Blurred vision is also a popular diagnosis among smokers. Smoking increases gastric acidity, gastritis and having peptic ulcer disease.
Smoking is rather expensive habit, but unfortunately now it’s even easier to buy cheap cigarettes. You can find a lot of cheap cigarettes stores online.
But the most serious problem of smokers is cancer. 90 percent of cancer patients are heavy smokers.
Smoking decreases the lifetime for 2-10 years, depending on time and intensity of smoking. You will be a lucky if you suddenly die of a heart attack, than if you are slowly dying of cancer.