3. Introduction
There are many effects of smoking but this
presentation deals with a few of them.
There is no doubt about the fact that smoking is
harmful. It affects every aspect of our lives; be it
physical, fetal and mental health, environment,
finances and many others too numerous to mention.
4. Short Term Effects of Smoking
Every puff of cigarette contains a
mixture of nicotine and carbon
monoxide and each time you smoke, it
temporarily increases your
1. Heart rate and
2. Blood pressure.
3. It also injures your heart and blood
vessels.
5. Long term effects of smoking
Loss of Appetite
Yellowing of teeth
Yellowing of facial hair
Halitosis (bad breath)
Lung cancer
Other cancers of the mouth and throat
6. Long term effects of smoking
Heart disease
Memory Loss with the passage of time
Premature Aging
Premature
death
Low Sperm Count
Emphysema
COPD
Wrinkles
8. Lung Cancer
A research conducted in the UK identified “Smoking
as the single biggest cause of cancer in the world,
and accounts for one in four UK cancer deaths. In the
UK, smoking kills five times more people than road
accidents, overdoses, murder, suicide and HIV all put
together.” This is really startling and your jaw begins to
drop when you learn that the situation is no different
in the US.
9. Lung Cancer
According to Bangladesh,
tobacco use is responsible for
nearly 14.6% men & 1.8% female
deaths in every year.
10. Lung Cancer
The world over, Lung Cancer is said to be the second
most common cancer with low survival rates and it is
strongly linked to smoking. If you contact Lung cancer
from smoking, just know that it is as a result of the tar
in tobacco smoke. Men and women who smoke are ten
times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-
smokers.
11. Premature Aging
Smokers tend to age quickly even though they may not
be advanced in years. Their face says it all. Full of
wrinkles and lacking in shine. This is because every
puff of cigarette smoke you inhale diminishes the
skin’s oxygen supply by reducing circulation. Not only
that. Collagen, the fibrous protein responsible for
producing new, healthy skin, is greatly reduced while
the water content of the skin also drops significantly.
This is what leads to a smoker’s sagging and ugly skin.
12. Heart Disease
Smokers tend to suffer from heart disease and strokes.
This is because smoking causes fat deposits to
constrict and block blood vessels which leads to heart
attack. Statistics have it that smoking causes around
two in five deaths from heart disease. In younger
people, two out of four deaths from heart disease are
due to cigarette smoking.
13. The effects of smoking to the
environment
The damage that smoking does to the environment is
unquantifiable. According to “Tobacco and the
Environment”, an Action on Smoking and
Health(ASH) fact sheet, ”Smoking releases about 2.6
billion kilograms of carbon dioxide in the air
worldwide every year. It also releases about 5.2 billion
kilograms of methane every year.”
14. The effects of smoking to the
environment
However the worst damage to the environment is
caused by the emissions from production, packaging,
transport and disposal of the cigarette packages. Not
to mention deforestation because cigarette papers
require one tree for every 300 cigarettes, which quickly
adds up considering their global demand.
15. Social effects of smoking
Apart from the high cost of cigarettes,smelly clothes
and breath,smoking affects both the smoker(who can
no longer socialize well) as well as the society. Second-
hand smoke from your cigarettes is also a serious
danger to children, family, and friends.
16. What is the Way Out?
No matter what happens, just know that the effects of
smoking far outweigh what you think you could be
getting from it and the wisest thing to do is to quit!
You may think it’s hard to quit but I tell you it’s hard
because you have not made up your mind to do it.
Make up your mind this very minute because it’s
within your power to do! Use our recommended best
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