Say Smoking No Forever » Health effects of smoking http://www.saysmokingno.com Smoking from all sides. All what you need to know about smoking tobacco and marijuana Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:58:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Smoking tobacco and lung cancer http://www.saysmokingno.com/smoking-tobacco-and-lung-cancer/ http://www.saysmokingno.com/smoking-tobacco-and-lung-cancer/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:43:20 +0000 admin http://www.saysmokingno.com/?p=159 lung1 A malignant tumor in the lungs most often causes by many years of smoking cigarettes. Experts estimate that about 90 percent of all cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking. Other less common causes of lung cancer are asbestos exposure or exposure to other industrial toxins, tuberculosis, and metastatic cancer from other areas of the body, or a prior occurrence of lung cancer.
According to the authors of an annual report on cancer, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2003, the prevalence of smoking in 2001 was highest in Kentucky (30.9 percent) and was lowest in Utah (13.3 percent). The authors said, “Lung cancer deaths were lowest in Utah, the state with the lowest adult smoking prevalence, and highest in Kentucky, the state with the highest adult smoking prevalence.”
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease. In 2007, the American Cancer Society estimated that 91,930 men and 68,510 women would die of lung cancer in 207. African Americans with lung cancer have a higher death rate than whites, or 66.4 deaths per 100,000 African Americans compared with 56.7 deaths per 100,000 for whites, although the reason for this difference is unknown.
The American Cancer Society estimated that about 93,000 new cases of lung cancer in men and 81,000 new cases in women would be diagnosed in 2007. The survival rate after five years from the diagnosis of lung cancer is only about 14 percent.
Many patients are not diagnosed until they are already in the late stages of the disease.
Lung cancer is also the leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada. According to the National Cancer Institute of Canada, an estimated 18,800 people died of lung cancer in 2003, including 10,900 men and 7,900 women.
There are two main types of lung cancer: nonsmall cell lung cancer (which is the more common form) and small cell lung cancer. Small cell lung cancer is more dangerous and aggressive than nonsmall lung cancer.

]]> http://www.saysmokingno.com/smoking-tobacco-and-lung-cancer/feed/ 0 Smoking and health http://www.saysmokingno.com/smoking-and-health/ http://www.saysmokingno.com/smoking-and-health/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:53:33 +0000 admin http://www.saysmokingno.com/?p=24 Cigarette smoke consists of a dynamic mixture of more than 5,000 known chemical compounds. These include both highly volatile gaseous and vapour components (called the gas phase) and larger smoke particles (the particulate phase, often referred to as tar.
Some of these compounds have cancer-causing, cardiovascular, respiratory, or other negative health effects.

Many symptoms are the result of smoking such as:
• Recurrent pneumonia or bronchitis
• Smokers cough that persist or becomes intense.
• Persistent chest shoulder, or back pain unrelated to pain from coughing.
• Loss of appetite
• Wheezing
• Neck and facial swelling
• Fatigue
• Bone fracture not related to an injury
• Unexplained weight loss

What are the health consequences of smoking?

The medical consequences of smoking exposure result from effects of both the nicotine itself and how it is taken. Cigarette smoking has been linked to about 90 percent of all lung cancer cases.
In addition to lung cancer, smoking also causes lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and it has been found to exacerbate asthma symptoms in adults and children. Smoking is also associated with cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, cervix, kidney, ureter, and bladder. The overall rates of death from cancer are twice as high among smokers as among non-smokers, with heavy smokers having rates that are four times greater than those of non-smokers.
Relationship between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease was first reported in the 1940s. Smoking substantially increases the risk of heart disease, including stroke, heart attack, vascular disease, and aneurysm. It is estimated that nearly one-fifth of deaths from heart disease are attributable to smoking.
The second-hand smoke causes lung cancer in adults and greatly increases the risk of respiratory illnesses in children and sudden infant death.

Health Hazards caused by smoking

Children and teens who smoke have more breathing problems, which is detrimental to overall health and physical activity.
Women who smoke generally have earlier menopause. If women smoke cigarettes and also take oral contraceptives, they are more prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases than are other smokers.
Pregnant women who smoke cigarettes run an increased risk of having stillborn or premature infants or infants with low birth weight. Children of women who smoked while pregnant have an increased risk for developing conduct disorders.
Statistic is that adults who smoke die about 14 years earlier than adults who do not smoke. For example, in the late 1990s an average of 440,000 Americans died prematurely each year as a result of smoking.
And it is not whole list of health hazards caused by smoking cigarettes.

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