Causes of Smoking

Smoking is accountable for 80% of all lung cancer deaths. Cancer from smoking claims over 100,000 lives each year, smoking can also handicap a person’s physical fitness as in their performance and endurance.

Lung and esophagus cancer together claim 87,000 lives per year. On average someone who smokes a pack or more a day lives seven years less than a non-smoker. Tar lines the inside of your lungs, which in turn causes the cancer. Someone who smokes 20 cigarettes a day inhales at least one cup of tar per year. The combination of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily augments your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. This in turn can cause a heart attack, or a stroke. Carbon Monoxide deprives your muscles, brain, and body tissues of oxygen making your heart labor harder. As time goes by your airways swell up and allows less air into your lungs. Three out of four deaths from heart disease in young people are caused by smoking. Smoking also causes fat deposits to narrow and obstruct blood vessels which excel heart attacks.

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