Smoking cigarettes is never good. Most of us know that fact; however, from time to time it's healthy to review what the Federal Government has to say.
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and has negative impacts on people at all stages of life. It harms unborn babies, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. The list of diseases caused by smoking has been expanded to include abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and stomach cancer. These are in addition to diseases previously known to be caused by smoking, including bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and throat cancers, chronic lung diseases, coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases, as well as reproductive effects and sudden infant death syndrome.
Smoking low nicotine or low tar cigarettes has been found to have no effect at all. Interesting to note that even people who currently have lung cancer; their prospects of improving is significantly higher if they stop smoking. Additionally, the progressive nature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is stopped, almost immediately, when one stops smoking.j
For further information on the treatments currently available for those who wish to stop smoking, please read the following link:
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/news/QuitSmoking.htm
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