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The Unseen Effects of Smoking

 

            
            
             Smoking is one of the most preventable causes of death in our society. About one in five deaths in the US are results from using tobacco. About half all of smokers between of 35 and 69 die ahead of time the new smokers replace them. Smokers could be losing an average of 20 to 25 years of their life. It gives you aliment, shortens your life, can affect others around you and yourself. Every time you smoke, it's like cutting 5 minutes of your life and there are many ways to quit. About 430,000 people in the US die every year from smoking related problems.
             Everyone knows that smoking effects the heart and the lungs. But what about the other parts of our body. Our skin our eyes our skin and our fertility are all critical area that are all effected by smoking.
             Smoking is a leading cause of blindness.
             To many of us, our eyes are our most prized attribute. We depend on sight more than smell, touch, and sound. Smoking has a detrimental effect on our eyes. A condition known as macular degeneration (the deterioration of the retina of the eye) is the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness and affects more Americans than cataracts and glaucoma combined. Smokers also run into a increased risk in cataracts. Cataracts are a clouding of the eye's lens that blocks light. Smoking irritates the eyes and releases chemicals into the lungs that then travel up the bloodstream into the eyes.
             Smoking vs. your looks.
             Americans put tons of emphasis on how they look that it doesn't make sense that 28934 of them are regular smokers. It is understood that smoking can make you look up to 20 years older and have as much as 10 times more wrinkles than a non-smoker. This is because smoking wears away proteins that give it elasticity, depleting it of vitamin A and restricting blood flow. Combining sunbathing and smoking is combination that leads to many forms of skin cancers. In fact smokers are twice as likely to contract skin cancer than non-smokers.


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