Consequences of Smoking

Smoking harms your health in many ways, but it is not just a bad habit but a terrible poisoning, it is also harmful to the people around you. Especially since you first tried smoking, it is difficult to stop after starting. Smoking is terrible for you, your health and other people for several reasons. You are killing yourself by slowly putting all sorts of harmful chemicals into your system, but you also hurt people around you in the process.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Every year, about 13,000 people in Quebec have died of smoking. Smokers are estimated to be three times more likely to die between the ages of 35 and 70 than nonsmokers. In addition, half of the people smoked at the age of 20 and died of tobacco related diseases without quitting smoking. In addition to the above serious health effects, smoking can also affect your daily life. It affects your breathing and causes coughing and shortness of breath. Increases risk of respiratory infections such as bronchitis. All these events will significantly degrade your quality of life

Among young people, short-term health effects due to smoking include the risks of respiratory and nonrespiratory effects, nicotine addiction, and other drug use related risks. Most young smokers continue to smoke throughout adulthood and reinforce the long-term health effects of youth smoking. (1) The level of pulmonary function of smokers is lower than that of those who never smoked. (1) Smoking decreases lung growth rate. (1)

Many of the results of smoking and other forms of tobacco use are established. In the first half of the century, smoking became more and more common, lung cancer mortality sharply increased. Originally this is obvious to men, but recent data suggests that lung cancer is becoming the leading cause of death from female cancer, smoking-only cancer has recently been reported as cancer death rate in the United States I will explain the increase. Since the late 1940s, the effects of smoking have been investigated in several retrospective and prospective studies. These studies have been reviewed and updated in the Surgeon General report (US Public Health Service, 1964, 1979, 1982) and other authorities. These studies show that the total mortality rate of smokers is 30% to 80% higher than that of nonsmokers, and depends on the age at which smoking begins and the number of tobacco smoked per day.