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Effects of Smoking
Effects on your Lungs
The chemicals in smoke enter the pathways in the lungs where oxygen from the air is absorbed into the body. The poisonous chemicals damage the lungs’ cilia – fine hairs that help remove dirt from the air.
The damage can make it more difficult to breathe and cause a permanent cough. Children who breathe in smoke are more likely to get illnesses such as pneumonia and bronchitis.
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Smoking worsens asthma and counteracts asthma medication by worsening the inflammation of the airways that the medicine tries to ease.
Emphysema: a very serious condition that cannot be cured – lungs are badly damaged and unable to function; 75% of those who die from emphysema are smokers.
Effects on Babies
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Delays in children in areas such as physical, emotional and intellectual development
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Effects on the Brain
The chemical changes the way signals in the brain are processed. It can make people feel more alert or feel a sense of pleasure. When the effects of nicotine wear off, people feel a strong need to get more. That’s why it can be very difficult to stop smoking once you start.
Addiction
Cigarettes are addictive – some believe even more so than heroin or cocaine. It is the nicotine that is present in the cigarettes that is the addictive ingredient.
Nicotine is found in all tobacco products, including cigarettes and chewing tobacco, as well as in electronic cigarettes.
Effects your heart
Chemicals in tobacco smoke can change the way your blood flows. They also damage the vessels that carry blood through your body. These changes can cause your heart to beat harder and faster. That can increase a person’s risk of a heart attack.
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Within one minute of starting to smoke, your heart rate begins to rise and it could increase by as much as 30% within the first 10 minutes of smoking. This can result in heart attacks due to the added strain.
Causes Cancers
Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of lung cancer (90% of victims smoke), throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.
For ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the risk of lung cancer drops to the same as that of a non-smoker.
Effects Children's ears
Children who are exposed to second-hand smoke have more ear infections. Germs get into the pocket of air behind the eardrum. That causes fluid to build up in the pocket, which leads to pain.
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