Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking

Smokers are at high risk of heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease) 1,2.

Smoking causes stroke and coronary heart disease. This is one of the major causes of death in the United States.

Even people who smoke less than 5 cigarettes a day may have early signs of cardiovascular disease

Smoking injures blood vessels, makes blood vessels thick and narrows. This will jump your heart faster and raise your blood pressure. Thrombus can also form 1, 2

Smoking injures the small air pockets (alveoli) in your respiratory tract and lungs, leading to lung disease.

Smokers can observe the short-term adverse health consequences caused immediately after smoking or shortly after smoking. Therefore, health effects due to smoking begin at the beginning of smoking or near smoking age. Usually this is during puberty. To emphasize the direct impact of adverse health effects on smoking, this report uses a lifelong perspective to assess smoking at all stages from childhood, adolescence and adolescence, and from late middle age to adulthood We will examine the influence on health by health. Chronic disease burden may occur. The duration of a particular vulnerability during the lifetime is during pregnancy (mother and fetus) and months after birth (baby), so this stage of life is considered separately.

The impact of smoking on health has been the subject of intensive research since the 1950s. In the United States, smoking is still considered the main preventable cause of preterm birth and preterm birth. As previously documented in the surgeon's report, smoking has been reported to be associated with lung cancer and other lethal malignancies, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, other serious health problems There is a causal relationship with the disease that brings about the result. . Recent studies conclude that passive (or involuntary) smoking may lead to the health of non-smokers, including lung cancer. In 1986, the advisory committee appointed by the surgeon announced a special report on the health effects of smokeless tobacco and concluded that smokeless tobacco use causes cancer and causes nicotine addiction (USDHHS 1986 )

Smoking causes chronic illness to the elderly such as lung cancer, and has a negative impact on health in a short period of time. It is unlikely that the adverse health effects of immediate and short-term smoking are directly deadly than long-term health effects. However, they are usually an important public health indicator since it leads to undesirable health conditions throughout the life of the smoker and because many short-term physiological effects contribute to the cause of the disease caused by smoking . It became obvious in the clinic. Adulthood