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The Effect of Smoking on Human Health

   

Added on  2020-11-12

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1Analysis of damage that smoking can have on individuals' lung................................................1Implications that passive smoke can have on people around the smoker...................................2Potential threats to addiction of smoking....................................................................................2Threat smoking can have on heart..............................................................................................3Effect on mouth after smoking....................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONSmoking tobacco is dangerous to health. It can impact an individuals' health conditionwidely. No healthy substance is been added in tobacco. This contains products like acetone,nicotine and carbon monoxide. It lays impact on entire human body. Report highlights the healtheffects on the consumers of smoking tobacco (Lindson‐Hawley, Thompson and Begh, 2015).Further, it discusses about the implications that passive smoke can have on people around thesmoker. Assignment also lays emphasis on the potential threat on addiction to smoking. It willexplain the threat smoking tobacco can have on heart. Report also highlights the danger smokingcan bring in mouth. MAIN BODY Analysis of damage that smoking can have on individuals' lungSmoking is injurious to health. It can lay severe negative impact on the working of lungs.Tobacco can hamper the health and well-being of an individual. Excessive smoking of tobaccoleads to damage of lungs. Various other problems like cold, cough, wheezing and asthma can befaced by people who are engaged in smoking. This is one of the major cause for people sufferingfrom diseases like lung cancer, pneumonia and emphysema (Carter and et.al., 2015). It has beenanalysed that people who are engaged in smoking are 15-30 time more likely to get lung canceror die from this disease than the people who do not smoke. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can also be caused due to smoking tobacco.Lungs are been damaged when an individual is involved in smoking regularly. Smoking tobaccocollects the harmful tar that can hamper the immune system as well as lungs of individual.Tobacco contains carbon monoxide that makes the human blood thicker. This can be one of themajor reason for lung cancer. Thickening of blood means when the body demands more oxygenthe blood cell will carry less. It will increase the dysfunction in human body (Pechmann, 2018). Tobacco also contain harmful ingredient like hydrogen cyanide. This harmful chemicalstops the cleaning process of lungs that makes them damaged. Other components included insmoking that can hamper the working of lungs are hydrocarbons, nitrous oxide, organic acid andmany more. Smoking tobacco raises the risk of infection in lungs and individual can be seen withthe symptoms like coughing, nausea and vomiting. It can bring permanent damage to the air sacsof lungs. 1
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