What Are the Harmful Health Effects of Smoking?
If you’ve been a smoker for years, or even decades, you’re probably concerned, and rightfully so, about the adverse effects of smoking on your health. When you started smoking, you probably weren’t planning on it being so hard to quit, or thought you’d only smoke once in a while. Now that you know the truth, it’s just too hard to quit your smoking habit. So, what is it doing to your body? When you take a deep drag and feel that luscious smoke filter its way onto every crevice of your lungs, what is it doing to you? Here’s the skinny on smoke and your health. Many people don’t know this, but smoking is actually just as bad for your cardio-vascular system as it is for your lungs. Everyone thinks that you’ll die of lung cancer or emphysema if you smoke, and you may well do that, but it’s your heart and circulatory system that feel the effects of smoking the quickest. As soon as you take a puff, the nicotine and other chemicals (4,000 of them) go to work, speeding up your heart and increas
