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Smokers Beware!!
by Dr. Robert Osgoodby
By now, most people are well aware that smoking causes
lung cancer. Cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and chewing tobacco kill
more than 434,000 Americans each year accounting for one out of
five premature deaths in this country. Lung cancer is just the
first in a long list of tobacco related illnesses:
- Bladder Cancer
- Smoking causes 40% of all cases of
bladder cancer.
Breast Cancer - Women who smoke
are 75% more likely to develop breast cancer.
Cervical Cancer - Up to one third
of all cases of cervical cancer are directly attributable to
smoking.
Childhood Respiratory Ailments -
Children exposed to parents tobacco smoke have six times as many
respiratory infections as kids of nonsmoking parents.
Diabetes - Smoking decreases the
body's absorption of insulin.
Emphysema - Smoking accounts for
up to 85% of all deaths attributable to emphysema.
Esophageal Cancer - Smoking
accounts for 80% of all cases of esophageal cancer.
Gastrointestinal Cancer - Smoking
at least doubles the risk of cancer of the stomach and duodenum.
Heart Disease - Smokers are up to
four times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than
nonsmokers.
Infertility - Couples in which at
least one member smokes are more than three times more likely to
have trouble conceiving.
Kidney Cancer - Smoking causes 40%
of all cases of kidney cancer.
Mouth Cancer - Tobacco causes the
vast majority of all cancers of the mouth.
Premature Aging - Constant
exposure to tobacco smoke prematurely wrinkles the facial skin
and yellows the teeth and fingernails.
Stroke - Smoking doubles the risk
of stroke among men and women.
Throat Cancer - The vast majority
of cases of pharyngeal cancer are directly related to smoking.
While smoking has officially been recognized as a cause of lung
cancer, scientists have also confirmed another tobacco danger,
that breathing the air containing someone else's smoke (second
hand smoke) poses many of the same risk as smoking yourself.
Doctors and Scientists have been reporting on the dangers of
tobacco and smoking for nearly four decades. Many serious
illnesses are directly attributed to smoking. If you want to live
a longer, healthier life quit smoking today!
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