Anyone that tells you that they can name all the harmful effects of smoking in a few simple sentences probably hasn't kept up with all the latest research and scientific data available now. It seems that every time some government institute or science lab does some type of study on the subject, there is yet another dozen or so items to add to the list of the harmful effects of smoking.
Many people of course know about lung cancer and easily equate that with the habit of smoking. But did you also know that infertility in both men and women is considered yet another side effect of smoking? In men, smoking chokes out healthy oxygen that keeps sperm healthy and active. Having "slow" or "lazy" sperm is one common cause of a man's infertility; the sperm are just not healthy enough to make that long trip toward a woman's egg! In women, smoking can interfere with her ovulation process, keeping healthy blood flow to her fallopian tubes. Not being able to release a healthy egg each month is one major cause of a woman's infertility - and yet many women don't know that this decreased ability to conceive a child is a common side effect of smoking!
Cancer not only affects the lungs of a human being. Most smokers are reported to have throat and mouth cancer too. This is not a surprise since those are the parts of a smoker's system that comes in regular contact with a lighted stick which can bring those cancer cells to the body.
Because the tar and nicotine from cigarettes is absorbed in the bloodstream, and the body's blood travels to every cell, there is the chance for cancerous cells to develop in virtually any area of the body. Breast cancer, cervical cancer, cancer of the liver, and cancer of the kidneys are also thought to be additional side effects of smoking. As a matter of fact, many doctors and researchers are tying virtually any cancer into the pollution that smoking brings to the body!
We are also aware that the respiratory tract of a person is the part of the body that suffers the most when an individual decides to smoke. This is because the lungs don't have any parts that can turn smoke to useful enzymes instead. Your lung sacs and bronchial tubes would eventually get damaged if you don't stop this harmful vice while you still can.
So if you have been smoking all your life, why don't you try to pause for a while and hold your breath as long as you can. It feels suffocating isn't it? Smoking would eventually do that to you once your lungs won't be able to take it any longer. So while you still have the time and the body, stop smoking.
Many people of course know about lung cancer and easily equate that with the habit of smoking. But did you also know that infertility in both men and women is considered yet another side effect of smoking? In men, smoking chokes out healthy oxygen that keeps sperm healthy and active. Having "slow" or "lazy" sperm is one common cause of a man's infertility; the sperm are just not healthy enough to make that long trip toward a woman's egg! In women, smoking can interfere with her ovulation process, keeping healthy blood flow to her fallopian tubes. Not being able to release a healthy egg each month is one major cause of a woman's infertility - and yet many women don't know that this decreased ability to conceive a child is a common side effect of smoking!
Cancer not only affects the lungs of a human being. Most smokers are reported to have throat and mouth cancer too. This is not a surprise since those are the parts of a smoker's system that comes in regular contact with a lighted stick which can bring those cancer cells to the body.
Because the tar and nicotine from cigarettes is absorbed in the bloodstream, and the body's blood travels to every cell, there is the chance for cancerous cells to develop in virtually any area of the body. Breast cancer, cervical cancer, cancer of the liver, and cancer of the kidneys are also thought to be additional side effects of smoking. As a matter of fact, many doctors and researchers are tying virtually any cancer into the pollution that smoking brings to the body!
We are also aware that the respiratory tract of a person is the part of the body that suffers the most when an individual decides to smoke. This is because the lungs don't have any parts that can turn smoke to useful enzymes instead. Your lung sacs and bronchial tubes would eventually get damaged if you don't stop this harmful vice while you still can.
So if you have been smoking all your life, why don't you try to pause for a while and hold your breath as long as you can. It feels suffocating isn't it? Smoking would eventually do that to you once your lungs won't be able to take it any longer. So while you still have the time and the body, stop smoking.
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