Smoking Diseases

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Cigarette smoking is the most preventable cause of a multitude of illnesses, diseases and conditions that are known to scientists and doctors today. Cigarette smoking will account for more than 440,000 deaths of the more than 2.4 million who die every single year. Smokers have a higher risk of developing many different chronic disorders that are a result of the chemicals and nicotine ingested into the body during smoking.

While the drug nicotine may be primarily responsible for the addiction to cigarettes there are over 2000 other chemicals that affect the body during smoking. The most hazardous substances included in cigarettes are tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide. Smoking will decrease the levels of oxygen which reached the tissues because of the carbon monoxide which also increases susceptibility at the cellular level for damage to be done by the over 40 different known carcinogens inhaled with each cigarette.

People who smoke are much more likely to suffer from respiratory infections, colds, flu, and coughs. Other more severe diseases are simply the result of a depressed immune system coupled with exposure to toxins and chemicals. One particular group of conditions called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, will block air flow into the lungs and increase the difficulty in breathing. This causes health dysfunctions like chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Smoking is responsible for 80% of chronic obstructive lung disease cases in the lungs of a smoker declined at a faster rate than those who don’t smoke.

Another group of diseases which are caused by smoking are cancers. Smokers are more likely to get cancer of the lungs, throat, and mouth. Other cancers that are associated with smoking are cancer of the bladder, pancreas, kidneys, esophagus and cervical cancer in women. Cancers of the blood such as acute myeloid leukemia have also been associated and linked with smoking.

Cardiovascular diseases, which are diseases of the heart, blood vessels and arteries, are also linked with smoking. Nicotine increases cholesterol levels in the blood in fact deposits in the arteries which contribute to cardiovascular disease. Common types of cardiovascular disease are peripheral vascular disease, coronary thrombosis, coronary artery disease, cerebral thrombosis and cerebrovascular disease, such as stroke. In the surgeon general’s report released in 2004, cigarette smoking has also been linked with abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Smoking has also been associated with fertility in both men and women and thought to be associated with impotence in men. Researchers know that pregnant women should not smoke because it decreases the oxygenation available to the fetus and therefore significantly impinges growth and development.

On average, the surgeon general believes that smokers die 13 to 14 years prior to non-smokers. And, although the statistics related to risk of disease is significantly long, the number of people who smoke has dropped from 42% in 1965 to approximately 21% in 2002.

This next list of conditions and diseases has been linked with cigarette smoking but is not inclusive.

Lung cancer

Cancer of the mouth

Cancer of the larynx

Cancer of the esophagus

Stomach cancer

Cancer the urinary tract

Cancer the pancreas

Liver cancer

Cervical cancer

Prostate cancer

Cancer of the penis