The Dangerous of Smoking (English Zone p.1)
Surely you are already familiar with the warning "no
smoking". Two words that could easily be found anywhere. There does not
seem surprising given the negative effects caused by smoking on your body.
One of the major consequences that you can get
from cigarettes is suffering from heart disease. It is estimated that around 20%
of deaths from heart disease are directly related to smoking. Why cigarettes
are so dangerous? Any other negative effects of smoking?
Just look at the content contained in the cigarette. More
than 4,000 chemicals are in it. Hundreds of which are toxic and about 70
ingredients in it are cancerous. Hazardous materials on a cigarette, among
others:
- Carbon monoxide. Substances that are often found in car
exhaust fumes can bind to the hemoglobin in the blood permanently so prevents
the oxygen supply to the body. It makes you tired.
- Tar. When the smoke, tar in cigarettes will participate
sucked. This substance will settle in your lungs and have a negative impact on
the performance of small hairs that line the lungs. Though the hair is tasked
to clean germs and other stuff out of your lungs.
- Gas oxidants. This gas can react with oxygen. Its presence
in the body increases the risk of stroke and heart attack due to blood clots.
- Benzene. Substances that are added to the fuel can damage
the cells at the genetic level. This substance is also associated with various
types of cancers such as kidney cancer and leukemia.
In addition to the ingredients above, there are still a lot
of content of toxic cigarette such as arsenic (used in pesticides), toluene
(found in paint thinners), formaldehyde (used to preserve dead bodies),
hydrogen cyanide (used to make chemical weapons), and cadmium (used to make
batteries).
When you smoke, you are more likely to have a heart attack.
Smokers risk two to four times higher heart disease. The risk is higher if you
are a smoker women who are taking birth control pills.
When smoking, you will also incorporate harmful
substances that can adversely affect the body, especially the heart. Examples
nicotine. When nicotine enters the body, a substance that can reduce oxygen
levels will go into the blood. Substances that are addictive it can also speed
up the heart rate, raises blood pressure, damage blood vessels in the heart,
and accelerate the blood clots that can trigger heart attacks. As well as the
harmful consequences to other body organs.
- Brain : Smoking can increase the risk of stroke by 50 percent. This
can cause brain damage and death. Smoking can also increase the risk of
developing a brain aneurysm. Brain aneurysm is a swelling of blood vessels
caused by weakening of the vessel wall. At times can rupture and cause bleeding
in the brain.
- Mouth and Throat : Bad breath and stained teeth is an effect that will arise as
a result of smoking. Gum disease and damage to the sense of taste can be
raised. A serious problem that will descend on the mouth and throat is the
increased risk of cancer of the tongue, throat, lips, and vocal cords.
- Lungs : One of the most harmful effects caused by smoking is lung
cancer. The chemicals in cigarettes could potentially damage cells in the lungs
that can kill cancer cells. Other serious illnesses that can you experience are
bronchitis, pneumonia and emphysema.
- Gastric : Smoking can weaken the muscles that control the lower part
of your esophagus. This allows acid from the stomach moves in the wrong
direction, that is, into the esophagus. The condition is called diseases of
stomach acid. Some of the risks of disease that would be faced by a smoker is
ulcers or ulcers and gastric cancer.
- Bone : Toxins in cigarettes can damage the bone by stopping
construction work cells. Therefore, smokers are more at risk of brittle bones
or osteoporosis. Cigarette toxins can also disrupt the balance of hormones in
charge keep bones strong, like the hormone estrogen.
- Skin : Smokers
will look older than nonsmokers because of a lack of oxygen to the skin.
Premature aging will be felt, such as the appearance of wrinkles around the
eyes and mouth. Cigarette toxins can also cause cellulite on the skin.
- Reproductive Organs : Smoking may interfere with the reproductive system and
fertility. In men, smoking can cause impotence, reduced sperm production, and
testicular cancer. While in women, smoking can reduce fertility. In addition,
the risk of cervical cancer was higher because smoking reduces the body's
natural ability to fight infection with the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
In addition to physical illness,
smokers also experience higher stress levels than those who do not smoke.
During this time you may think smoking can make it more relaxed. You assume the
nicotine can soothe your mind, but it was wrong. Which makes the smoker is
restless and anxious to nicotine withdrawal symptoms. With smoking, addiction
to nicotine will be fulfilled and the cigarette smokers feel like lowering
stress.
Indeed, not all smokers will die from heart disease, lung
cancer, or stroke, but the smoking habit can be very distracting and reduce the
quality of your daily life. Effects of cigarette you can feel everyday is
coughing, shortness of breath, tired more easily, more susceptible to
infection, or a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty breathing at night
and then feel tired in the morning.
Perhaps you are used to hearing the dangers of smoking on
the body, but you still did not stop the habit of smoking cigarettes because
they feel at this time your health is still okay. Keep in mind, just like saving smoke toxins in the body that
can accumulate bit by bit if done continuously. By doing so, the risk of
suffering from the disease would be higher in old age. Not only are you, the
people nearby will feel the effects from inhaling the toxic smoke.
