The Detrimental Health Effects of Smoking and its Consequences

This report comprehensively examines the detrimental health effects of smoking on individuals and the wider community. It begins by analyzing the damage smoking inflicts on the lungs, including increased risks of lung cancer, pneumonia, and emphysema, and the impact of harmful substances like tar, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide. The report then explores the implications of passive smoking, highlighting the risks faced by non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke, such as increased susceptibility to lung cancer and heart disease, and the negative impacts on children. Furthermore, the report delves into the addictive nature of smoking, discussing the potential threats to overall health, including its effects on the brain, appetite, and the long-term consequences like heart disease, stomach ulcers, and reduced breath. The study also addresses the specific threats smoking poses to the heart and mouth, detailing the increased risk of coronary heart disease, angina, mouth cancer, and tooth decay, as well as the effects of nicotine on the digestive system and immune response. The report concludes by summarizing the major health risks associated with smoking, emphasizing the importance of understanding these dangers to encourage cessation and promote public health. The report references several books and journals to support its findings.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Analysis of damage that smoking can have on individuals' lung................................................1
Implications that passive smoke can have on people around the smoker...................................2
Potential threats to addiction of smoking....................................................................................2
Threat smoking can have on heart..............................................................................................3
Effect on mouth after smoking....................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Smoking tobacco is dangerous to health. It can impact an individuals' health condition
widely. 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 health
effects 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 the
smoker. Assignment also lays emphasis on the potential threat on addiction to smoking. It will
explain the threat smoking tobacco can have on heart. Report also highlights the danger smoking
can bring in mouth.
MAIN BODY
Analysis of damage that smoking can have on individuals' lung
Smoking 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 tobacco
leads to damage of lungs. Various other problems like cold, cough, wheezing and asthma can be
faced by people who are engaged in smoking. This is one of the major cause for people suffering
from diseases like lung cancer, pneumonia and emphysema (Carter and et.al., 2015). It has been
analysed that people who are engaged in smoking are 15-30 time more likely to get lung cancer
or 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 tobacco
collects 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 the
major reason for lung cancer. Thickening of blood means when the body demands more oxygen
the 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 chemical
stops the cleaning process of lungs that makes them damaged. Other components included in
smoking that can hamper the working of lungs are hydrocarbons, nitrous oxide, organic acid and
many more. Smoking tobacco raises the risk of infection in lungs and individual can be seen with
the symptoms like coughing, nausea and vomiting. It can bring permanent damage to the air sacs
of lungs.
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Implications that passive smoke can have on people around the smoker
The exposure to tobacco smoking can increase the risk of having various diseases like
lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Even if an individual is not smoking they
are surrounded by this risk of having health issues (Hughes and et.al., 2014). Passive smoking
can make a person's immune system weak and make them more prone to discover new diseases.
It puts them at high risk of creating coronary heart disease that leads to other disorders like heart
attack, stroke and angina. It has been analysed that passive smoking can also lead to death of an
individual. This can be because of person has faced problem like lung cancer or heart disease. By
constantly been around the people who smoke, it can reduce the efficiency of other people who
are around to do work.
Passive smoking can lead to supply of less airflow. It can hamper or detsroy the tissues
present in lungs. Decrease in air spaces in the vessels of blood can lead to lung cancer. It can also
develop various other form of diseases like ear infection, nausea, vomiting, skin allergy. This can
make a human body weak and more prone to disease. It has been analysed that a lot people die
from effects of passive smoking. Second hand smoking is most dangerous for kids or children. It
can lay negative impact on their growth. There might occur chances that children learn from their
parents the habit of smoking at an early age. It can make them prone to various heart disorders
and other lung diseases.
Potential threats to addiction of smoking
Addiction to smoking can be one of the major causes for death. It can lay great impact on
the functioning of human body. Smoking is the main reason for people suffering from various
diseases. Excessive smoking can lead to hampering of brain activity. It can cause further ill
effects like skin allergy, nausea, vomiting and many more. This can hamper the living condition
and well-being of individual(Lancaster and Stead 2017). Person can also go through other
conditions like they can face a loss in their appetite. It can make them weak and immune to more
diseases. Excessive smoking can also bring long term effects.
Tar in cigars can lead to increase risk of lung cancer. Individual can also experience
effects like loss of smell and taste (Excessive smoking, 2018). It can also rise the risk of having
damage to brain and stroke. Some of the long term effect of doing excessive smoking includes
heart disease, stomach ulcers, asthma, reduce in breathe. This can lay a great impact on
functioning of body parts. It can also cause harm to pregnant women. Like for example if any
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women during pregnancy time is engaged in smoking than it can cause dangerous harm to their
body as well as the child. Smoking tobacco can also increase the risk of high blood pressure and
diabetes. This can make a person dull. After suffering from these type of disorder, their physical
activity can be reduced. Even passive smoking can produce harm to the functioning of human
body. It can also lead to damage and reduced sperm. Women can also face the problem of
irregular periods.
Threat smoking can have on heart
Smoking tobacco is one of the major cause for coronary heart disease. It can lead to
disorders like heart stroke, angina and other cardiovascular problem. Excessive smoking can also
lay impact on the blood vessel (Lancaster and Stead, 2017). Due to smoking the blood vessels
are unable to transfer oxygen that leads to reduce in supply of oxygen. This can increase the
other major risk in an individual body. They can also become prone to various type of other
disease like lung cancer, vomiting, stomach ulcer, dizziness. Also smoking can cause addiction.
In this if a person is not given cigar to smoke it can cause other problems like anxiety, depression
and dizziness (US Department of Health and Human Services. 2014). Loss in appetite can also
be one of the factor that can be faced by people. It increases the risk of heart disease.
It also lay impact on the individuals future living. They can become weak and can also
face long term illness due to this. It can reduce the working efficiency of individual. Also
individual can involve in doing various type of abuse after consuming tobacco and liquor. It
hampers the growth of human body. Nicotine in cigars produces a harmful chemical adrenal that
rises the heart beat and also make the blood thicker. This increases the risk of person facing
problems related to heart. Smoking can also bring damage to the arteries. It can build a harmful
substance in the body which narrows the arteries. This increases the risk of people suffering
from problem like coronary heart disease and angina.
Effect on mouth after smoking
Smoking can hamper the working of human body part. It can also lay impact on the
mouth. Individual involved in excessive smoking can face problems like mouth cancer. Smokers
can face a wide problem related to the tooth decay. It can damage teeth and gum of a person who
is engaged in smoking tobacco on regular basis. This can reduce the flow of blood to the gum
which leads to rise in further problem related to teeth. Smokers can also have faced more amount
of tooth decay than the non smokers. Cigars contain nicotine that can lay impact on the working
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of digestion system. It can make immune system fight against infections. Excessive smoking is
one of the major cause for throat cancer.
Smoking can also lead to the inflammation of salivary gland. The problem related to
tooth decay and gum decay can make a person face problem in eating. This can lead to loss in
appetite. It is one of the major reason for weak body and immune system. Person who is engaged
in smoking can face other disorders like stroke, lung cancer. Also infection in mouth can be
caused because of smoking. This can reduce the work efficiency of people. They can become
dull in working. In order to get rid of smoking they can seek health care professionals that will
support them in living smoking. Also they can engage in physical activities which will help them
in overcoming various health related problem.
CONCLUSION
From, the above study it has been summarised that excessive smoking can lead to a major
problem that is lung cancer. It has made an individual immune system weak and also they
become prone to more infection. Cigar contain nicotine that has caused other problems like
throat cancer, coronary heart disease. Passive smokers are also at high risk of developing various
disorders related to lung and brain. Major death has been caused due to it.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National
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Lancaster, T. and Stead, L.F., 2017. Individual behavioural counselling for smoking
cessation. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (3).
Hughes, J.R. and et.al., 2014. Antidepressants for smoking cessation. Cochrane database of
systematic reviews, (1).
Carter, B.D. And et.al., 2015. Smoking and mortality—beyond established causes. New England
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Pechmann, C., 2018. Does antismoking advertising combat underage smoking? A review of past
practices and research. In Social Marketing (pp. 189-216). Psychology Press.
Lindson‐Hawley, N., Thompson, T.P. and Begh, R., 2015. Motivational interviewing for
smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. (3).
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