Diseases Caused From Tobacco Use
By Miranda Barnhart
Diseases
Smoking damages so many things in your body.There is nothing safe about smoking.Smoking does not only hurt you but it hurts the people around you. Some of the cancers from tabacco use are as follows:
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Bladder cancer
- Cancer of the cervix
- Cancer of the esophagus
- Kidney cancer
- Cancer of the larynx (voice box)
- Lung cancer
- Cancer of the oral cavity (mouth)
- Pancreatic cancer
- Cancer of the pharynx (throat)
- Stomach cancer
Some other effects include:
- infertility,
- preterm delivery,
- stillbirth,
- low birth weight, and
- sudden infant death syndrome
The Effects On Your Body...
Is it worth it? No!
Yuck.
Would you want to kiss this? Or talk to someone that had their teeth looking like this?
Lungs...
It ruins your lungs! Your choices today will always affect you later..
Secondhand Smoke
Second hang smoke effects millions of people. This may cause others to have some health problems.Every year thousands of people die from second hand smoke every year. Exposure to cigaretts smoke damages DNA.
Cigaretts
Ciggarettes are responsible for 443,000 Deaths, one in five deaths per year in the United States. Nictotine is the key chemical compound that addicted people to tabacco.There are more than 7,000 chemicals per cigarette. 69 chemicals in cigaretts are cancer causing.1/3 of people who have ever tried smoking smoke on a daily basis
Sources
"Health Effects of Smoke Cigarettes." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10 Jan. 2012. Web. 24 May 2013.
"A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease -."Surgeon General. N.p., 23 May 2012. Web. 23 May 2013.