Smoking is Harmful For Everyone
By Bob Sherman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports:
| Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body; causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general. The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 438,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths, each year in the United States. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. |
Not only does it do harm to you, but it harms those around you who involuntarily breathe in the smoke you generate. The 2006 Surgeon General's Report on the health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke indicates:
| Secondhand smoke hurts adults too.
The longer you are around secondhand smoke, the more likely it is to hurt you.
Nonsmokers who breathe smoke at home or at work are more likely to become sick and die from heart disease and lung cancer. Studies show that secondhand smoke may cause other serious diseases, too.
Secondhand smoke is bad for your heart.
Breathing secondhand smoke makes the platelets in your blood behave like those of a regular smoker. Even a short time in a smoky room causes your blood platelets to stick together. Secondhand smoke also damages the lining of your blood vessels. In your heart, these bad changes can cause a deadly heart attack.
Secondhand smoke changes how your heart, blood, and blood vessels work in many ways. Adults who breathe 5 hours of secondhand smoke daily have higher "bad" cholesterol that clogs arteries.
Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in adults who don’t smoke. Breathing in secondhand smoke at home or work increases your chances of getting lung cancer by 20 percent to 30 percent. |
So, no matter how you look at it, smoking is not healthy. In fact, it's downright dangerous for everyone.
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If you could ask just one question about smoking or quitting smoking,
What would it be?
