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HOW TOBACCO ENTERS THE BODY Smoking does not just affect smokers - it spreads
There are several different methods for deadly chemicals to everyone around them.

ingesting tobacco into the body. Products like
chews and dips deliver nicotine through the THE BRAIN AND ADDICTION

gums. Smoking vaporizes the chemicals in In time, the brain becomes accustomed to the
tobacco into smoke and sends them through altering effects of nicotine and reacts adversely
the airways and lungs, where they are when it is not provided. This condition is
absorbed into the bloodstream. The primary RESPIRATORY DISEASE addiction, and it is dif?cult for those who have
active drug, nicotine, then travels to the brain
and creates an arti?cial sense of pleasure by never experienced it to understand. It causes
releasing hormones. Living with chronic respiratory disease, such a person to continue taking the drug even with
as emphysema, means dealing with painful a full understanding of its destructive nature.
Nicotine is not the only substance in tobacco, consequences every moment, day and night, for The power of nicotine addiction is so strong
that entire products, government agencies, and
though. As cigarette smoke travels through the rest of one’s life. The well-known “smoker’s companies exist for the sole purpose of helping
cough” and hoarse voice are evidence that
the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, and the respiratory tract’s protective walls and the people ?ght it.
lungs, it leaves behind a residue containing sensitive structure of the larynx (“voice box”) some of the effects of secondhand smoke into LUNG CANCER
thousands of other dangerous chemicals, SECOND HAND SMOKE AFFECTS OTHERS
including carbon monoxide, cyanide, have been permanently corroded and broken
ammonia, and formaldehyde. This coating is down by the toxic chemicals that comprise Scientists have only recently been able to put
the main source of the respiratory diseases tobacco smoke. Coughing ?ts, sleep loss, just “go up in smoke”– it injects destructive
directly connected to tobacco use. asthma, constant breathing dif?culty, and numbers, and the data is more disturbing than chemicals into the body that will later cost
LUNG CANCER RESPIRATORY DISEASES a multitude of other diseases are constant they had anticipated. All of the long term health even more money to medically treat.
reminders of the cost of smoking.
risks of smoking– lung cancer, heart disease,
Finally, blowing a cloud of chemicals into
and respiratory diseases– are also carried by
Eighty to ninety percent of lung cancer cases HEART DISEASE secondhand smoke. Children, whose bodily the air and carrying a residual cigarette
smoke odor is a sure way to drive away
are directly caused by tobacco. There is As nicotine travels through the bloodstream, systems are delicate while developing, are
no cure for this devastating illness, and it blood vessels contract. This unnecessary highly vulnerable to these threats and often friends and family members.
shortens the life span of its victims while pressure on the heart and arteries causes them develop lifelong health problems by inhaling DON’T START, QUIT OR DIE
making every breath a painful experience. the arms and legs. This restriction in blood ?ow TOXIC CHEMICALS cigarette smoke. This means that smoking
to wear out far more quickly than they would
Sadly, tobacco-related lung cancer is entirely normally, and is a huge in?uence in the well- does not just affect smokers– it spreads deadly Pretty harsh choices, but when it comes
preventable, yet hospitals and insurance documented shortened life span of smokers. chemicals to everyone around them. to using tobacco there aren’t very many
companies spend In addition to causing coronary heart disease, healthy, good outcomes. Your best bet is to
millions of dollars tobacco use also damages the arteries leading to OTHER CONSEQUENCES stay far away from tobacco. If you don’t use
every year treating tobacco, consider yourself lucky and don’t
patients for it. Americans spent over $83 billion on cigarettes
causes painful diseases like gangrene and loss each year. Smoking is a very expensive habit, start. If you do use tobacco, do yourself and
of tissue, sometimes requiring amputation of and the money spent on cigarettes does not everyone else a favor and quit.
?ngers, toes, arms and even legs.
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IN THE KNOW:
Tobacco
Tobacco
Cigarettes and other tobacco How It Affects the Body
products damage nearly every
organ in the body. These products
cause a number of diseases and also increase the likelihood that a user will develop
other long-term health problems. Just by itself, cigarette smoking is the leading
preventable cause of death in the U.S. Quitting tobacco can add years to a person’s
life, but it’s best to not even start using these products in the first place.
BRAIN
Strokes
EYES Alzheimer’s disease
Addiction
Blindness
Cataracts
Macular Degeneration MOUTH
THROAT
Stained Teeth
Bad Breath
Gum Disease
Periodontitis
Oral Cancer
Esophageal Cancer
Tongue & Soft Palate Cancer
LUNGS
Lung Cancer
Asthma
Tuberculosis
Emphysema
Chronic Bronchitis HEART
Atherosclerosis
Heart Attack
STOMACH High Blood Pressure
Heart Disease
Stomach Cancer Aortic Aneurysm
Peptic Ulcers
Liver Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
LIVER
Liver Cancer
Hepatitis B & C PANCREAS
Liver ?brosis Pancreatic Cancer
Type 2 Diabetes
KIDNEYS BONES + BLOOD
Kidney Cancer Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ureter Cancer Acute Myeloid
Bladder Cancer Leukemia
Osteoporosis
REPRODUCTIVE For Women:
ORGANS Reduced Fertility
Cervical Cancer
Early Menopause
SMOKING WHILE
PREGNANT RAISES
For Men: THE RISK OF:
Erectile Dysfunction Stillbirth
Lower Sperm Count Preterm Delivery
Damaged Sperm Ectopic Pregnancy
Low Birth Weight
Orafacial Clefts in Infants
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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