do you still want to continue to smoke today, are you sure? part 2

Dangers of smoking are not to be ignored

During this time, we have always heard the campaign to stop smoking because smoking is not only hazardous to yourself the active smokers themselves, but also to inhale the smoke, i.e. the passive smokers.



In fact from a medical point of view, like what the hell is twilight?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smokers have a risk of heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.

Smoker — both passive and active — have a risk of heart disease and stroke by as much as 2 to 4 times. In addition, male smokers will be at risk of developing lung cancer by 25 times, and women smokers will be at risk of developing cancer of the lungs of 25.7 times.

From these data, it can be seen that women smokers come with the risk of lung cancer is greater than male smokers.

Why is this so?

This is because most women are passive smokers, they are sucking up the smoke exhaled by smokers.

Not only are heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer, other parts of the body also actually has the risk of damage caused by smoking.

Here is an illustration showing that smoking can damage any part of the human body.

Dangers of smoking in women are:

- It undermines a woman to get pregnant
- Affect the health of babies before and after birth
- Increases the risk of babies born prematurely
- Increased risk of stillbirth or the death of a baby before birth
- Low birth weight
- Sudden infant death syndrome.
- While for men, the main dangers of smoking are:

Affect the performance of the sperm, so it can reduce fertility
Increase the risk of infant birth defects

In addition related to reproduction, fertility, and deadly diseases — such as stroke, heart disease, emphysema, and cancer — the danger of smoking also threatened through some of the following:

Smoking increases the risk of developing diabetes. Dr. Sanjeev Bhambani, an endocrinologist from New Delhi, mentioning that smoking will increase the levels of glucose in the blood which then create diabetes getting worse.
Smoking increases the risk of cataracts, caused by chemicals that are released through the cigarette smoke can affect blood flow to the eye.

There was a study done on the 50,000 respondents women by age range 45-67 years. Found data, that those who smoke have a 63% increased risk of cataracts than non-smokers. If you get affected by cataracts, then the risk of blindness would be increased.

Smoking also causes diseases of the mouth. Tobacco can inhibit blood flow to the gums. This resulted in the gums become deficient nutrients and oxygen, so prone to infection. If the mouth already infection, dishonesty, to eat well, becomes very difficult. There are still many parts other skin will also be disrupted by smoking, such as the weakened tooth tissue to inflammation of the salivary glands.


Will still ignore the dangers of smoking?

After knowing the harmful content on smoking and all the dangers of smoking which will probably be Your responsibility, whether you can still ignore it?

Just imagine, how much his senses of your life if you don't smoke. Because with quitting smoking, it means also reduces the risk of developing the disease.

With only 1 year of quitting, the risk of developing a heart attack and dropped sharply. Within the next 2 to 5 years after quitting smoking, the risk for stroke can be reduced as those who do not smoke.

Risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, and will also be reduced by half within 5 years (CDC, 2017).

Imagine life without the threat of the disease. How blissful and a relief, isn't it? So, You're still going to ignore?

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