Smoking is Injurious to Health

Smoking is an addiction once you start smoking you cannot get rid of it. It makes you unfit, unhealthy and ruins your body internally. Government is trying its best to inform people about the harmful effects of smoking beside the fact that that how dangerous it can be if it comes into a habit.

Smoking has very dangerous effects on the body. It damages your lungs making them weak and disturbs their functioning. As soon as the person starts smoking, the harmful effects start their work. In the starting stages of smoking, the person suffers from shortness of breath, cough, and wheezing. Apart from this fact, it should be noted that tobacco smoking causes number of cancers and heart disease since tobacco is mixed with nicotine and many other harmful chemicals they reach into your body and increase your heart rate and blood pressure resulting into straining your heart and blood vessels. This causes number of heart attacks and strokes.

Smoking kills the body from inside and is slow way to death. The strain of smoking causes years of sufferings. It causes a disease called emphysema. It is a long term disease of lungs that causes shortness of breath. People with emphysema often suffer from lung and heart failure. Smoking often causes Lung cancer. It is generally caused due to a tar in tobacco smoke.

It affects your Bones. Regular smoking causes bones to get weak and brittle. Generally, women smokers suffer from a disease called osteoporosis causing a great damage to the bones.

Smoking also affects the eyes causing conjunctivitis or a major eye disease called night blindness, cataract, and sometimes-complete blindness.

It also disturbs our digestive system by affecting your stomach causing stomach cancers or ulcers. It can also damage your Kidney, pancreas, and bladder. It will affect your reproduction capacity by damaging your sperms or reducing your sperm counts. For women smokers it is to note that it can disturb your menstrual cycle badly. Also can lead to early menopause.  During pregnancies it can affect your baby by increasing health risks to your developing fetus. Smoking is a leading cause of premature births, and greatly increases the risk of mental retardation, miscarriage, low birth weight, and other serious health conditions  in women.

It can cause mouth and breathe problems. Continuous smoking can lead to bad breath and can also damage your teeth badly. It can cause gum problems and damage your sense of taste. The most serious problem caused with mouth problems in smoking is lip , tongue, throat cancer.

However, the most important thing to note is that young smokers may now feel a great pleasure in smoking. However, they would feel its effects on the body in their later age. Smoking does not leaves anybody. Gradually it will keep on affecting your body and only one day you would feel your mistake.

Smoking does not only harm you but also people associated with you and people sitting around you because the smoke, which you take out from your mouth after smoking, will damage the environment badly. Not only that just think once about your family members what feelings will they be going through seeing you killing yourself day by day.

If you are a continuous smoker, the time has come for you to stop smoking and live a healthy wealthy and great life!

Articles