Major Diseases Caused By Smoking

What is Cigarette? 
The main ingredient in cigarettes is tobacco. Tobacco is a green, leafy plant that is grown in warm climates. Farmers use many chemicals to grow tobacco. They use fertilizers to make the soil rich and insecticides to kill the insects that eat the tobacco plant.

Most Dangerous Chemical in a cigarette and their common uses

• Carbon monoxide: Used in chemical manufacturing and found in car exhaust
• Nicotine: highly addictive, bug sprays
• Tar: a mixture of dangerous chemicals, material to make roads
• Arsenic: used in wood preservatives, rat poison
• Ammonia: used to make fertilizers and explosives also found in cleaning products
• Hydrogen Cyanide: gas chamber poison and also used as an industrial pesticide
• Cadmium: Used in Battery 
• And many more

Major Diseases Caused By Smoking
Cancer: 
Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers. Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body see below the detail

• Bladder
• Blood (acute myeloid leukemia)
• Cervix
• Colon and rectum (colorectal)
• Esophagus
• Kidney and ureter
• Larynx
• Liver
• Oropharynx (includes parts of the throat, tongue, soft palate, and the tonsils)
• Pancreas
• Stomach
• Trachea, bronchus, and lung

Lung Diseases:

Smoking accounts for 87% of lung cancer deaths in men and 70% in women. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women, and is one of the hardest cancers to treat.

Lung cancer can often be prevented. Some religious groups that promote non-smoking as part of their religion, such as Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, have much lower rates of lung cancer and other smoking-related cancers.

Smoking other health risk:
Smoking can make it harder for a woman to become pregnant and can affect her baby's health before and after birth. Smoking increases risks for:

• Preterm (early) delivery
• Stillbirth (death of the baby before birth)
• Low birth weight
• Sudden infant death syndrome (known as SIDS or crib death)
• Ectopic pregnancy
• Factorial clefts in infants

Smoking raises blood pressure - a risk factor for heart attacks and stroke.

Smoking worsens asthma and counteracts asthma medication by worsening the inflammation of the airways that the medicine tries to ease.