• Smokers wounds are slow to heal.
• Tobacco damages the mouth and teeth.
• Smoke damages the eyes.
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Smoking and Cancer.
In the UK about 46,000 people die every year of smoking-related cancers. The most common smoking-related killer is lung cancer. However, other forms of cancer also cost lives that could have been saved if they had quit smoking.
Approximately 30,199 people in England and Wales died of lung cancer in the year 1998.
One in five heavy smokers which smoke 15 or more cigarettes a day are more than likely to die of lung cancer. Only 0.5% of people who develop lung cancer have never touched a cigarette.
The more cigarettes you smoke in a day and the more years you have smoked, the higher the risk of getting lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the most important of the tobacco-related cancers but there are other cancers that occur more frequently in smokers than in non-smokers. These are:.
Cancer of the larynx.
Cancer of the oral cavity and the pharynx.
Cancer of the oesophagus, pancreas, bladder and cervix.
If a doctor feels that a lung cancer patient may be cured by surgery, it is very important to stop smoking beforehand.
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Tobacco Causes Blood Clots.
Smokers are more susceptible to blood clots(thrombosis) than non-smokers. Smoking can lead to the likelihood of contracting thrombosis 10 years earlier than in non-smokers.
By the age of 18-20 arteriosclerosis has already begun. Everyone will develop arteriosclerosis during their life. However non-smokers will develop arteriosclerosis later in life than smokers. In the UK, 40,000 people die every year of arteriosclerosis-related diseases due to smoking.
Coronary and cerebral thrombosis are the most common causes of sudden death.
Smokers are 2 to 4 times more likely to develop blood clots than non-smokers. About 1/3 of all coronary thrombosis are due to smoking. Sudden blocking of a blood vessel in the heart gives rise to agonising chest pains, breathing difficulties and a feeling of choking.
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WELLNESS I - PRESENTATION Smoking is Hazardous to your Health 1.Statistics a.Cigarette smoking is the single most important preventable cause of illness and early death. ... ii.1/3, or 125,000, of all cancer deaths are attributable to smoking... (1)Several types of cancer are directly caused by smoking. ... While non-smoking 30 year olds can expect to reach the age of 82.7 years old. ... c.Some of the damage done by smoking, can be reversed once you've stopped, however, some can't. ...
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Recent studies on the number of deaths as a result of smoking confirmed that eight out of ten people affected with diseases affiliated with smoking were a cause of second hand smoke. Laws are in the process of being passed to make certain places completely non-smoking. ... Wont someone be unhappy no matter what the decision about banning smoking is? ... Also, bars must limit their smoking section to only 20% of the whole bar (OCAT). ... The majority seems to have a neutral attitude towards the new smoking laws. ...
