WHO estimates that tobacco users will increase to 1.9 billion in 2025 later. How many cigarettes waiting for potential victims?
Every 8 seconds, one person was killed in the world because of smoking. The cause is not just lung cancer and heart which are triggered by toxins that sprayed every puff smoke into the body, but also a stack of other diseases.
Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, such as nicotine, CO, NO, HCN, NH4, acrolein, acetilen, benzaldehyde, urethane, benzene, methanol, coumarin, etilkatehol-4, ortokresol, and others. In addition to the gas component, there is solid or particle component consisting of nicotine and tar.
Tar contain carcinogens which causes the cancer, while nicotine is addictive substances that causes addiction. Smoking habits that have proved associated with at least 25 types of disease in various organs, including respiratory tract cancers to lung, bladder, chronic bronchitis, and blood vessel disease. From a number of diseases that most of the deaths from lung cancer (87 percent), and chronic bronchitis (82 percent).
World Health Organization (WHO) notes, inhale toxic smoke causes dangerous diseases. The most commonly affects the heart and lungs. The main risk factor for heart attack, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer (especially lung cancer, larynx cancer and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). Also causes peripheral vascular disease and hypertension.
Cigarettes sold in developing countries tend to have a higher tar content, and tend not to be filtered, potentially increasing susceptibility to diseases related to tobacco in the region. [Nichter, M., and E. Cartwright. 1991. Saving the children for the tobacco industry. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 5 (3) :236-256.]
WHO estimates that smoking causes 5.4 million deaths in 2004 and 100 million deaths during the 20th century. Similarly the report, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco smoke toxins that considers this risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide. [ Nicotine: A Powerful Addiction. "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
WHO noted that in 2000 smoking was practiced 1, 22 billion people, and is expected to rise to 1.45 billion people by 2010 and 1.5 to 1.9 billion in 2025 later.
Here are some of the effects of smoking (except cancer) against the body that are not known to many people, from head to foot:
- Smoking lowered immune system so that smokers are more susceptible to diseases such alupus erimatosus that can cause hair loss, ulcerations / sores or canker sores in the mouth, and rash (rash) on face, scalp and hands.
- Smokers have 40 percent higher risk of cataracts - buramnya eye lens that block the entry of light, and even cause blindness. Shot of poisonous chemicals from cigarettesmoke irritate the eyes or impede the flow of oxygen in the blood to the eye.
- Cigarette smoke burns damage the proteins and vitamin A that maintains skin elasticity,smoothness and reduce blood flow. The skin of smokers, especially around the lips andeyes, become dry, rough, and striped.
- Cigarettes cause plaque on the blood vessels that disrupts the flow of oxygenin the blood leading to the inner ear. Smokers may lose their hearing earlier than non-smokers, and more prone to middle ear infections that can be followed by complicationssuch as meningitis and paralysis of facial muscles.
- Toxic chemicals of cigarette smoke cause plaques that actively contribute to damage the teeth. Smokers are one and a half times more tooth loss.
- outbreak of respiratory bag that reduces lung capacity breathe oxygen and releasecarbon dioxide. In extreme conditions, people with emphysema need trakheostomioperation - installation of an open pipe in the trachea to assist the entry of air into thelungs - to be able to breathe.
- One in three deaths in the world associated with heart disease and blood vessels - thebiggest risk factor is cigarette smoke. Every year, more than 1 million people in developing countries and 600,000 people in developed countries died because of heartdisease. Various studies have shown smoking speed up heart rate and raise bloodpressure (thereby increasing the risk of hypertension) and eventually clog the blood vessels that cause heart attacks and strokes.
- Smoking increases the risk of cervical cancer (cervix) and cervical cancer, and damage to a woman's fertility and cause pregnancy complications. Smoking during pregnancyheightens the risk of low birth weight infants, which causes little susceptible variety ofhealth problems. Miscarriage was found two to three times more often in smokers.
- Various of toxic smoke can damage DNA and change the shape of sperm, which thenlead to miscarriage or birth defects. Smoking also reduces male fertility and reduceblood flow to the penis - which can cause impotence.
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