Smoking harms our health how
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Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Some of these harmful effects are immediate. Find out how smoking affects different parts of your body.
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Physical Health
Overall Health and Life Span
Smokers take more sick days. They also have higher health care costs.
Insurers can charge tobacco users up to 50% more than people who don’t use tobacco.
Smoking can cut at least 10 years off your expected life span.
Smoking is the leading cause of premature, preventable death in this country.
Cancer
Smoking is the leading cause of cancer and death from cancer.
Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in the body. Like the lungs, throat, mouth, liver, breasts, colon, pancreas, and stomach.
Poisons in tobacco smoke can damage or change a cell’s DNA. DNA is the cell’s “instruction manual” that controls a cell’s normal growth and function. When DNA gets damaged, a cell can grow out of control and create a cancerous tumor.
Cardiovascular Disease
Smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke by two to four times.
Even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease.
Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them get thick and narrow. This makes your heart have to beat faster, and your blood pressure goes up. Blood clots can also form.
Respiratory Disease
Smoking causes lung diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Tobacco smoke can trigger an asthma attack or make an attack worse.
Smokers are 12 to 13 times more likely to die from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis—than nonsmokers.
Answer:
(a) Smoke is a colloidal solution of fine carbon particles in air. During breathing, smoke particles can enter our lungs and lead to the problem of asthma.
(b) To reduce the health hazards by smoke in the environment, smoke precipitators can be usedto get rid of fine carbon particles in air. Cottrell smoke precipitator can also be used to remove the fine particles of carbon from air.
(C) To avoid the negative impacts of smoke produced by burning coal, environment friendly fuels like hydroelectric power and atomic power can be used.