Posts Tagged ‘effects of cigarette smoking’

Effects of Cigarette Smoking

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Many organizations, including health and the government have made it pretty obvious that many diseases are associated with the negative effects of cigarette smoking. Current studies show that people who smoke are more susceptible to lung cancer. A few of the health issues and side effects of smoking that are caused by smoking are lung cancer, throat cancer, redness of eyes, emphysema, smoker’s cough, amongst many others.

People may understand that health effects of smoking can cause lung cancer but are not aware that many other disease are associated with smoking. Other ailments that can be caused by smoking are: esophageal cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer and cervix cancer.

The Dangers of Smoking Revealed

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

It’s very difficult for some people to understand, but the health effects of smoking touch more than just your lungs alone.  While many still connect lung cancer with smoking, they are often uneducated about the dangers of smoking and how completely destructive smoking can be to your health.

Sure, we all know about lung cancer and bronchitis.  But did you know that cigarette smoking is the number one contributor to heart attacks as well?  Did you also know that many types of cancers are also thought to be caused by the harmful effects of cigarette smoking, including liver cancer, bladder cancer, cancer of the larynx, cancer of the throat, cancer of the mouth and tongue, esophageal cancer, cancer of the large intestine, and even cancer of the bloodstream?