Proven health-impairing consequences of smoking
“Tobacco has been shown to cause about twenty five
lifethreatening diseases, or groups diseases.”
Smoking related diseases
Smoking is one of the risk factors of lung, laryngeal, oral, esophageal and bladder cancers.
Among smokers chronic respiratory infections are of frequent occurrence.
Smoking is a risk factor of cardiovascular diseases.
Smokers are often exposed to ulcerous diseases.
Environmental tobacco smoke endangers the health of non-smokers, too.
Non-smoker wives of smoker husbands are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smoker wives of non-smoker husbands.
Environmental tobacco smoke aggravate the complaints of heart patients and increases the risk of death by heart infarction.
A pregnant smoker jeopardises her own health and that of her unborn child.
Smoking during pregnancy leads to more frequent foetal death, miscarriage, premature birth and during parturition.
Smoking during pregnancy will retard the development of the embryo, hence it will diminish the weight, length, head and breast circumference of the new-born.
Smoking during the breast-feeding period will damage the baby's health -- the milk will “pass on” the poisons elements of tobacco smoke.
Smoking during pregnancy or the breast-feeding period as well as the environmental tobacco smoke lead to more frequent “sudden infant death”.
Smoking during pregnancy may imperil the mental capacity of the child.
Among the new-born of pregnant smokers respiratory infections are frequent.
The father's being smoker increases the cancer risk of the progeny (A spermatocyte damaged through smoking may pass on the inclination to cancer).
Among the new-born of pregnant smokers the thyroid gland is often larger in size.
Smoking has a share in development and aggravation of the disorder with eye symptoms.
Smoking may lead to impotence.
Smoking is detrimental to fertilisation.
Smoker patients absorb medicaments quicker than usual, proving thus to be less efficient then in the case of non-smokers.Generally smokers appear to be taken more medicaments than non-smokers do.
In locomotor disorders: Smoking has a share in development of necrosis of “caput femoris” and in aggravation of other symptoms for articulations.
Smoking is one of causal factors of gingivitis and periodontal diseases.
Inveterate smoking is one of the causes of old-age blindness.
Smoking is one of the risk factors of osteoporosis.
Smoking diminishes the C, B-12 and B-6 content of the organism.