This over-inflation consequences from a breakdown of the walls of the alveoli. The sufferer would encounter with symptoms such as shortness of breath and a brutal cough (LaSalandra).
Getting into more serious factors, smoking can also increase the rate of lung cancer. The many carcinogens in cigarette smoke result in permanent changes in the respiratory tract cells. These unnecessary changes may result in cancer. As you would have thought, "Cigarette smoking is the major cause of lung cancers of all major histologic types" (Egendorf 87). The rates of lung cancer continue to increase as more and more people continue to smoke. .
Huffing and puffing on a cigarette can also damage the heart and circulation. Premature coronary heart disease is one of the most vital medical consequences due to smoking. The coronary arteries are hardened and narrowed. When these arteries are diseased, the heart is at risk of not receiving the oxygen-rich blood that it needs to the .
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heart. Patients diagnosed with this malady can undergo symptoms including chest pain .
and fatigue (Hamby and Weitzman). For quitters who think they are off the hook of .
getting this disease, Hamby and Weitzman say that, "The excess risk of coronary hart disease is halved one year after cessation, but the risk level doesn't return to that of nonsmokers until 15 years after quitting.".
An alternative disease to the body's circulation caused by smoking is Cebrovascular accident, otherwise known as the common stroke. A stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel or artery, or when a blood vessel breaks, interrupting blood flow to an area of the brain. When a brain attack occurs, it kills brain cells in the immediate area. Symptoms relating to the stroke include a sudden numbness to the face, arm or leg, confusion and trouble speaking, sudden trouble seeing out of one of both eyes, trouble walking caused by dizziness, and a severe headache that has no known cause.