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tobacco smoking is a known or probable cause of approximately 25 diseases, and even the who says that its impact on world health is not fully assessed.

heart attack and stroke

uk studies show that smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers.

tobacco contributes to the hardening of the arteries, which can then become blocked and starve the heart of bloodflow, causing the attack.

often, smokers who develop this will require complex and risky heart bypass surgery.

if you smoke for a lifetime, there is a 50% chance that your eventual death will be smoking-related - half of all these deaths will be in middle age.

smoking also increases the risk of having a stroke.

lung problems

another primary health risk associated with smoking are lung cancer, which kills more than 20,000 people in the uk every year.

us studies have shown that men who smoke increase their chances of dying from the disease by more than 22 times.

women who smoke increase this risk by nearly 12 times.

lung cancer is a difficult cancer to treat - long term survival rates are poor.

smoking also increases the risk of oral, uterine, liver, kidney, bladder, stomach, and cervical cancers, and leukaemia. ( 书村网 www.mcqyy.com )

another health problem associated with tobacco is emphysema, which, when combined with chronic bronchitis, produces chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

he lung damage which causes emphysema is irreversible, and makes it extremely difficult to breathe.

harm to children

smoking in pregnancy greatly increases the risk of miscarriage, is associated with lower birthweight babies, and inhibited child development.

smoking by parents following the birth is linked to sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, and higher rates of infant respiratory illness, such as bronchitis, colds, and pneumo

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