You probably already know that the major risk of smoking is that you are far more likely to die than if you didn’t smoke. So big deal right? that’s a long way off anyway. So what if smoking causes:
* 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men
If you are a smoker and someone who is afraid to look old then you better stop smoking right away. We all know that smoking is dangerous to our health. It could lead to some major illnesses including lung cancer, bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory and lung complications. It is also proven to damage the skin and make you look older. The effects of smoking on the skin can be characterized by having premature skin aging, visible fine lines, wrinkles and it also leads to a sallow and unhealthy skin.
Smokers have the tendency to pucker their mouth when they puff their cigarettes. This causes constant contractions of the muscles around the mouth area. As a result, wrinkles develop around the mouth as well as visible fine lines and premature skin aging. The effects of smoking on the skin can also be visible on the eye area because smokers have the tendency to close their eyes tight so they can avoid the cigarette smoke to get into their eyes resulting to wrinkles around them. Studies also show that heavy smokers have an almost five-fold increased risk of wrinkles as compared to those who do not.
The major cause of primary carcinoma of the lung or lung cancer is smoking. Tobacco also is solely responsible for cancer of the bladder, pancreas and kidney. Both men and women are equally vulnerable to lung cancer. There are around 32% of men and 25% women who die from cancer every year. Around 90% per cent of lung cancer patients are cigarette smokers. Those men who smoke one packet of cigarettes a day increase their risks of lung cancer by around 10 per cent compared to those who do not smoke. The signs of lung cancer involve chronic cough, persistent cough, chest pain, coughing of blood, an increase in mucous production, noisy breathing or wheezing, shortness of breath, bronchitis, hoarseness, pneumonia weight loss and loss of appetite. If you are a smoker or have been a smoker for many years you have a high risk of cancer however you can also suffer some other associated lung problems. So the longer you smoke the greater risk you have of lung cancer.
Once you stop smoking you greatly minimize the risk of not only lung cancer but also other associated smoking related diseases like heart stroke, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The development of lung cancer takes a number of years and the disease peaks at around the age of 55 to 65 years of age. There are changes in the lung the moment you are exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. Soon after exposure to smoking begins, there are a few abnormal cells that may appear in the lining of the bronchi that are the main breathing tubes in the human body. When increased exposure to these substances there are more abnormal cells that appear and some become cancerous and they form tumors. When you stop smoking the abnormal cells are replaced by the normal cells and your risk levels of getting lung cancer falls drastically.