The Bad Effects of Smoking

Smoking is a slow poison. Following are the cigarette smoking effects and reasons why should you quit smoking

Harmful Effects of Smoking on your Body, Lung and Health

1. 90% of lung cancer occurs in those who have smoked. Each package delivers the equivalent of one chest x-ray and affects lungs
2. Cigarette smoking causes heart disease and stroke. Studies proved that these diseases can be found in smokers
3. The smokers lives 7 years lesser than someone who never smoke
4. Smoking may cause shortness of breath
   
5. Smoking causes damage to small blood vessels and thus increases the risk for cellulite.
6. Smoking is an important risk factor for respiratory illnesses and its effects causes 85,000 deaths per year from pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia
7. Nicotine in Cigarettes stimulates the central nervous system and increases the heart rate and blood pressure.
8. Smoking is the one of the major cause for Lung Cancer
9. Smoking have been proved to decline the quality of sperm.
10. Smoking raises the risk for diabetes problems.
11. Children and adolescents who are active smokers will have increasingly severe respiratory illness, as they grow older

Harmful Effects of Smoking on your Appearance, Skin and Hair

1. Smokers are four times more likely to have gray hair than non-smokers. Even worse, smoking has been conclusively linked to accelerated hair loss.
2. Smoking may cause "Smoker's face" because a series of noticeable changes in skin complexion and colour is caused by toxins
3. Smoking dries out the skin as result reduces skin's ability to regenerate
4. Smoking reduces the level of collagen in the skin which leads to loss of elasticity and the quick formation of lines and wrinkles
5. Smoking causes blood vessel constriction of the top layers of skin which reduces the oxygen levels which leads to a dull complexion

Harmful Effect of Smoking cigarettes on young people and Pregnanent Women

Among young people, the smoking cause respiratory and nonrespiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the risk of other drug use. The main effect of smoking, is the young people who smoke may smokers for rest of their life.

The resting heart rates of young adult smokers are two to three beats per minute faster than non-smokers

The bad effects of smoking cigarettes are more dangerous that every year thousands of people died out of it. The smoking effects on Pregnanent Women are far more dangerous.