Diseases Caused By Smoking Are Numerous serious and fatal...but there is hope
Including list of diseases caused by smoking tobacco cigarettes
Diseases caused by smoking are numerous. If you have been to my cigaratte additives page you will see that there are over 599 additives in tobacco cigarettes and 4000 chemical compounds. The 4000 chemical compounds are formed when the additives are burnt during smoking.
Almost every smoking person is aware one way or the other of the dangers of smoking. However many are not aware of the actual consequences of smoking disease wise. Now access to smoking information and advanced research has improved available knowledge dramatically as compared to some 20 to 30 years ago when people hardly knew what they were taking in and its effects on those surrounding them.
That having been said, many people who smoke are still caught by surprise. Perhaps the most known disease is lung cancer caused by cigarette smoking. It is true and proven that smoking leads to lung cancer. In fact smoking causes or plays a part in an array of other cancers when taking about the general diseases caused by smoking.
Apart from lung cancer, health effects of tobacco further include other cancers such as cancer of the kidney, cancer of the larynx, breast cancer, bladder cancer, esophagus cancer, pancreas cancer, stomach cancer and cervical cancer.
There is growing evidence pointing to liver cancer, cervical cancer and colerectal cancer. Cancer related to secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke in children will include gall bladder, adrenal gland and small intestine.
Speaking of lungs, the effects of smoking will include a greater susceptibility to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB).
Smokers who take in more than 20 cigarette a day (that's a pack) increase the risk of contracting TB by up to four times. This susceptibility is increased in smokers both by structural damage say to a person's lungs and respiratory tracts as well as effects on the immune system. These scientifically proven effects of tobacco can be backed by a study released in 2006 by Davies PDO, Yew WW, Ganguly D. and others called "Smoking and tuberculosis: the epidemiological association and pathogenesis"
"Smokers lung" is yet another disease that eventually appear in long-term smokers presenting itself like pneumonia or bronchitis and is sadly now appearing in younger people.
If you are a smoker you might be experiencing shortness of breath or general breathlessness. Smoking increases the rate of decline in lung function. Breathlessness is a mere symptom of a decrease in lung function.
Smokers have also reported an increase in common cold and chronic bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis is blamed for frequent coughing with a lot of mucus. This type of coughing often attracts many curious eye balls in the smoker's direction.
The following might be shocking to some and even appear far fetched. Cigarette smoking has strongly been linked to immune system compromise in such a manner that CD4+ (a type of white blood cells that fights infection) production in the body system has decreased as a result of nicotine.
In fact studies coming up suggest that nicotine is a key component in immuno-suppression found in cigarette smoke even though other components also appear to play a role. Though cautious, medical experts and researchers have pointed to increased HIV susceptibility as a result. Further they suggest a more rapid progression from HIV infection to AIDS as a result of smoking. You may jump to this page with citations which opens in another window on cigarette smoking and infection.
Diseases caused by smoking are numerous, serious and fatal...but there is hope if one elects to stop smoking.
Here is a list of the diseases caused by smoking:
Cancers
# Lung cancer #cancer of the kidney #cancer of the larynx #breast cancer #bladder cancer #esophagus cancer #stomach cancer #liver cancer #cervical cancer #colerectal cancer #gall bladder (in children) #adrenal gland (in children) #small intestine (in children)
Other Disease and conditions
#greater susceptibility to tuberculosis #Smokers lung ( presents like pneumonia or bronchitis) #Breathlessness (a condition) #Diabetes #Heart disease #Heart attack #chronic bronchitis #susceptibility to HIV #Rapid progression from HIV to AIDS
