how many people die from smoking each year
I take care of people that smoked or continue to smoke (I work in a hospital). Smoking increases your risk for- cardiovascular disease (your veins get stiff and small, which increases risk for clots and disables it to deliver oxygen and other products) Cancer of any kind, not just lung cancer Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (people eventually have to fight for every breath they take and have problems with developing pneumonia. Once you have COPD, you will always have to manage it…and if something else doesn’t kill you, it will) High blood pressure (which leads to strokes, aneurysms and destruction of your kidneys) Coronary artery disease (which limits the amount of oxygen your heart can have….eventually leading to heart attack) Stomach problems like acid reflux Really, the list goes on. It is one of the single most preventable risk factors for many diseases and conditions. Your question has a number that would be difficult to calculate… Smoking increases your risk for a mul
