Smoking causes many premature deaths from diseases that are largely incurable, but preventable by stopping smoking. There are three main killing diseases which smoking causes or brings on earlier:
Heart disease. Smoking is responsible for 30 percent of all heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths.
Cancer. It is responsible for at least 30 percent of all cancer deaths and 87 percent of lung cancer deaths each year.
Lung problems. Smoking is responsible for 82 percent of deaths due to emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Smoking also exacerbates diseases and conditions that are not always fatal, but cause suffering or are sources of personal concern.
Smoking delays healing of peptic ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, many of which would heal spontaneously in non-smokers.
Its effects on blood vessels cause chronic pains in the legs (claudication) which can progress to gangrene and amputations of the toes or feet.
An effect on elastic tissue causes wrinkling of the skin of the face to develop earlier in chronic smokers. On average they look 5 years older than non-smokers of the same age do.
Smoking also brings on an earlier menopause in women, advancing it by an average of 5 years.
It reduces women's fertility and delays conception after they stop using oral contraceptives.
It impairs erections in middle-aged and older men and may affect the quality of their sperm. It seems to "sedate" sperm and to impair their motility. This is reversed after stopping smoking.
Smoking accelerates the rate of osteoporosis, a disease which causes bones to weaken and fracture more easily.
Women who smoke during pregnancy damage their unborn child, causing effects that last throughout the child's life. The risks of miscarriage, premature birth, and death of the baby in its first year of life are all significantly increased.
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Brief history of cigarette.
In 1492, when America was in its first days of discovery, Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco. These dried leaves were given as gifts and discarded with no importance. Nearly 30 years later it was observed that the natives of Yucatan were smoking cigarettes. After early day research of tobacco, it was first recorded that the plant had an addictive nature. Not much later, European cultivation of tobacco began. Within 25 years, tobacco was introduced Portugal, Spain, and France and within a couple of years, England. By the early 1600's, Virginia enter the world tobacco market cultivating that plant for sale in England. By the late 1800's, beginning in Massachusetts, outdoor smoking starts to become banned due to the dangers of fire, unlike today's bans due to health risks. In 1794, tobacco's popularity had risen so much that U.S. Congress passes the first tax on the plant's products. Believe it or not, the first anti-tobacco organization actually developed in 1830.
Tobacco may have been prevalent and on the rise, but the actual cigarette was not yet invented until 1832. By 1860, the first manufactured cigarettes were appearing in the United States in a market commanded by Bull Durham. From 1861-1865, soldier rations include tobacco, in the meanwhile, the first American cigarette factory opens, producing nearly 20 million cigarettes on a yearly basis. By 1875 celebrity is used to skyrocket cigarette popularity, and this branding continues for many years to come.
From 1898-1901, between Supreme Court hearing and strong anti-cigarette activity and outlawing, the unhealthy aspects of cigarettes make their first appearance despite their sales being in the billions and their 80% American male usage rate. The next half century brings us ads, sports usage, celebrity usage, booming cigarette economy, and more.
By the 1970's, cigarettes come into light in a way that many naive users thought they never would. The dangers, disease, and death caused by cigarettes Brief history of cigarette
In 1492, when America was in its first days of discovery, Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco. These dried leaves were given as gifts and discarded with no importance. Nearly 30 years later it was observed that the natives of Yucatan were smoking cigarettes. After early day research of tobacco, it was first recorded that the plant had an addictive nature. Not much later, European cultivation of tobacco began. Within 25 years, tobacco was introduced Portugal, Spain, and France and within a couple of years, England. By the early 1600's, Virginia enter the world tobacco market cultivating that plant for sale in England. By the late 1800's, beginning in Massachusetts, outdoor smoking starts to become banned due to the dangers of fire, unlike today's bans due to health risks. In 1794, tobacco's popularity had risen so much that U.S. Congress passes the first tax on the plant's products. Believe it or not, the first anti-tobacco organization actually developed in 1830.
Tobacco may have been prevalent and on the rise, but the actual cigarette was not yet invented until 1832. By 1860, the first manufactured cigarettes were appearing in the United States in a market commanded by Bull Durham. From 1861-1865, soldier rations include tobacco, in the meanwhile, the first American cigarette factory opens, producing nearly 20 million cigarettes on a yearly basis. By 1875 celebrity is used to skyrocket cigarette popularity, and this branding continues for many years to come.
From 1898-1901, between Supreme Court hearing and strong anti-cigarette activity and outlawing, the unhealthy aspects of cigarettes make their first appearance despite their sales being in the billions and their 80% American male usage rate. The next half century brings us ads, sports usage, celebrity usage, booming cigarette economy, and more.
are now being medically proven and television ads are outlawed. In 1992, the ever so popular Marlboro Man dies of lung cancer and sums up cigarettes toll on the country. In 1999 the scientific consensus on cigarettes: "There is an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers.".
Remember Smokers are LIABLE TO DIE YOUNG.
Tobacco may have been prevalent and on the rise, but the actual cigarette was not yet invented until 1832. By 1860, the first manufactured cigarettes were appearing in the United States in a market commanded by Bull Durham. From 1861-1865, soldier rations include tobacco, in the meanwhile, the first American cigarette factory opens, producing nearly 20 million cigarettes on a yearly basis. By 1875 celebrity is used to skyrocket cigarette popularity, and this branding continues for many years to come.
From 1898-1901, between Supreme Court hearing and strong anti-cigarette activity and outlawing, the unhealthy aspects of cigarettes make their first appearance despite their sales being in the billions and their 80% American male usage rate. The next half century brings us ads, sports usage, celebrity usage, booming cigarette economy, and more.
By the 1970's, cigarettes come into light in a way that many naive users thought they never would. The dangers, disease, and death caused by cigarettes Brief history of cigarette
In 1492, when America was in its first days of discovery, Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco. These dried leaves were given as gifts and discarded with no importance. Nearly 30 years later it was observed that the natives of Yucatan were smoking cigarettes. After early day research of tobacco, it was first recorded that the plant had an addictive nature. Not much later, European cultivation of tobacco began. Within 25 years, tobacco was introduced Portugal, Spain, and France and within a couple of years, England. By the early 1600's, Virginia enter the world tobacco market cultivating that plant for sale in England. By the late 1800's, beginning in Massachusetts, outdoor smoking starts to become banned due to the dangers of fire, unlike today's bans due to health risks. In 1794, tobacco's popularity had risen so much that U.S. Congress passes the first tax on the plant's products. Believe it or not, the first anti-tobacco organization actually developed in 1830.
Tobacco may have been prevalent and on the rise, but the actual cigarette was not yet invented until 1832. By 1860, the first manufactured cigarettes were appearing in the United States in a market commanded by Bull Durham. From 1861-1865, soldier rations include tobacco, in the meanwhile, the first American cigarette factory opens, producing nearly 20 million cigarettes on a yearly basis. By 1875 celebrity is used to skyrocket cigarette popularity, and this branding continues for many years to come.
From 1898-1901, between Supreme Court hearing and strong anti-cigarette activity and outlawing, the unhealthy aspects of cigarettes make their first appearance despite their sales being in the billions and their 80% American male usage rate. The next half century brings us ads, sports usage, celebrity usage, booming cigarette economy, and more.
are now being medically proven and television ads are outlawed. In 1992, the ever so popular Marlboro Man dies of lung cancer and sums up cigarettes toll on the country. In 1999 the scientific consensus on cigarettes: "There is an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers.".
Remember Smokers are LIABLE TO DIE YOUNG.
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