How does smoking effect men?
Smoking – health risks Reviewed by Dr Gavin Petrie, consultant chest physician You can eat five portions of fruit and veg a day and exercise regularly, but healthy behaviour means little if you continue to smoke. The message that ‘smoking is bad for you’ is an old one, so not everyone gives it their full attention. Below we list the health risks of smoking. Why quit smoking? Term watch ‘Cardiovascular’ means the heart and circulation. Cardiovascular disease causes: poor circulation angina (chest pains) heart attacks stroke. Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses. Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year. Of these deaths, about 42,800 are from smoking-related cancers, 30,600 from cardiovascular disease and 29,100 die slowly from emphysema and other chronic lung diseases. How do cigarettes damage health? Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances. When you inhal
