Smoking and Risks to the Lungs Louice Lu CN-15

Faith Barnal CN-1

What is smoking?

Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled.

Why is smoking bad for our health?

Smoking is very bad for your health as it causes cancer and emphysema. Smoking causes more than eleven types of cancer including cancer of mouth, bladder, pancreas, kidney, esophagus, stomach, and liver. Emphysema is a chronic disease. It destroys your lungs gradually resulting in asthmatic attacks, breathlessness, hyperventilation, and other respiratory disorders.

What are the disadvantages of smoking?

It can give us stained teeth, bad breath, and early wrinkles around the mouth, yellowing nails, and changing color of skin. Smokers are three times more vulnerable to losing their teeth than nonsmokers. It also reduces oxygen supply to heart. This increases possibility of blood clotting, higher blood pressure, and cholesterol problems.

Diseases you may get from smoking..

Lung cancer is the most common type of disease. It is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body.

Other diseases are..

• Cardiovascular Diseases

~ are diseases of the heart, blood vessels of the heart, and other blood vessels

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

~blocks airflow and causes difficulty in breathing

~causes health problems such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis

Cancers you can get from smoking. (additional info !)

Picture of a smoked lungs.

Why do smokers continue to smoke?

It seems it gives your mind and body strength enough to fight with sleep, hunger and also psychological barriers. It also gives smokers this satisfying feeling when they smoke. If they didn’t smoke, they feel that there’s still something missing.

What will happen if they quit smoking?

When heavy or regular smokers quit smoking, they would fell some types of reactions in their body. Like coughing, craving, restlessness, sleepiness, mouth sores, and chest pain.

What will happen if smokers quit smoking for 5-15 years?

When you go 5-15 years without smoking you will be at around the same risk of having a stroke than the average person that doesn’t smoke. After 10 years your risk of lung cancer will also be the same as for an average person that doesn’t smoke. The risk of cancer in other body parts as a result of past smoking will also have decreased. After 15 years you will finally have the same risk of heart disease as someone who hasn’t smoked, and that should be a nice and comforting fact about smoking.

Reasons why we should not smoke

Smoking under age 18 is illegal.

Smoking reduces your ability to do things that require endurance, such as sports, etc.

Smoking can seriously harm your body in ways of cancer, emphysema, etc. Also, it leads to your early demise.

Smoking is a repulsive habit, especially when it comes to the opposite sex.

Smoking makes you and your environment stink.

The nicotine in cigarettes are extremely addictive, and, chances are that if you start early, then it'll be harder to quit the habit.

Smoking may cause tension between friend and family relationships.

It is also a very costly habit.

THE END !