What Kinds of Cancer Are Caused by Smoking Cigarettes?
You know there are health concerns with smoking but you may not know all of them. You no doubt have heard that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, but there are other kinds of cancer that can be caused by smoking too. Knowing what these are may help you decide to quit smoking. First of all there are many diseases, conditions and ailments caused by smoking cigarettes. Besides various cancers which I’ll discuss in this article, cigarette smoking causes chronic lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Perhaps you have suffered from bronchitis a time or two. Or you may even have chronic bronchitis now. If you smoke cigarettes you’re damaging the air sacs in your lungs and may end up with emphysema. Emphysema cannot be reversed. If you know smokers who have a wheeze in their voice, they may have emphysema. Eventually they’ll be hooked up to oxygen or a portable oxygen tank and you’ll see people dragging these around if they have any energy left to do so. Smoking also causes
