10 Diseases Caused by Smoking and Smoke
Smoking Diseases
Smoking and smoke known to cause various diseases some of which are fairly even deadly. Smoking and cigarettes smoke invade all the organs. This is because in a single cigarette contains 4000 chemical compounds that 40 of them, including toxins (toxic) or carcinogenic (cancer-causing).
Here it is 10 a list of diseases caused by smoking.
1. Lung Cancer
Unknown about 90 percent of cases of lung cancer caused by smoking. This is because the smoke will enter inhalation into the lungs. Substances from cigarette smoke stimulates these cells in the lungs are growing abnormally. An estimated 1 in 10 moderate smokers and 1 of five heavy smokers will die from lung cancer.
2. Bladder Cancer
Bladder cancer occurs in about 40 percent of smokers. Study finds high levels of the compound 2-naphthylamine in cigarette smoke into carcinogens leading to bladder cancer.
3. Breast Cancer
Women who smoke are more at risk of developing breast cancer. The study shows women who started smoking at age 20 years and 5 years before she became pregnant the first time greater risk of developing breast cancer.
4. Cervical Cancer
About 30 percent of deaths from cervical cancer caused by smoking. This is because women who smoke are more susceptible to infection by a sexually transmitted virus.
5. Esophageal Cancer
The study found that cigarette smoke damage the DNA of the cells of the esophagus causing esophageal cancer. About 80 percent of cases of esophageal cancer has been associated with smoking.
6. Mouth Cancer
Tobacco is the leading cause of oral cancer. Known smokers six times more likely to develop oral cancer compared with nonsmokers, and those who smoke tobacco without smoke-risk 50-fold greater.
7. Kidney Cancer
When a person smokes, the smoke contains nicotine and tobacco will go into the body. Nicotine along with other hazardous chemicals such as carbon monoxide and tar cause changes in heart rate, breathing and circulation of blood pressure. Carcinogens are filtered out of the body through the kidneys also alter the DNA of cells and damage the cells of the kidney. This change affects renal function and lead to cancer.
8. Heart Diseases
Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes the heart to work faster and increases blood pressure. While carbon monoxide takes more oxygen in the blood that makes the heart pump more blood. If the heart is working too hard plus high blood pressure, it can cause heart attacks.
9. Impotence
For men in their 30s and 40s, then smoking can increase the risk of erectile dysfunction approximately 50 percent. This is because smoking can damage blood vessels, narrowing the artery so that nicotine reduces blood flow to the penis and blood pressure. If someone has already experienced impotence, it could be a warning that smoking is damaging other parts of the body.
10. Throat Cancer
Cigarette smoke is inhaled before getting into the lungs will pass through the throat, hence this cancer will be associated with smoking.
