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How Does Smoking Hurt Your Heart - Smoking Heart Disease
Another Reason To Quit Smoking Learn The Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking! Find Out More
In the United
States smoking kills approximately more than 400,000 people every
year. Of that large number around 30-40 percent are deaths in
relation to heart disease and heart attacks. It almost seems
as if the efforts put into quit smoking campaigns in trying to send
the message to the world are taking a slow effect, if any at all.
The cycle continues and smokers continue to smoke and the
Smoking, by itself, leads to a large branch of medical/health issues which is affecting the current aging smoker. The top medical problems that arise are lung cancer, heart disease, and lung disease and even these are just a handful of health related issues. The connections with in each other almost seem endless! A greater risk for coronary heart disease is present in those 50 years or younger who smoke. Coronary heart disease becomes a greater risk for cigarette smokers because when it is combined with other health factors it increases the risks. It lowers the good cholesterol, increases blood pressure, and chances of blood clots become higher with an increased risk of having a stroke. If these issues have been problems of past family members, the current smokers chances are much higher at having the same health problems. So what is it about smoking that increases the risk of heart attacks? The nicotine. When the substance is sent to the bloodstream its causes the blood vessels and arteries to tighten and contract, the blood becomes much thicker causing clots with in the arteries. The heart naturally becomes deprived of oxygen causing the body to work extra hard to compensate for its lack of blood flow. The Same Affect on Passive Smokers Second hand smoking, also known as passive smoking has also show to cause cardiovascular disease through smokers. Exercise endurance, blood vessel walls and clots are all shown to have the same effect on passive smokers. It may seem that the affects are small but the overall damage caused by second hand smoking takes its toll on the body and has caused lung cancer, coronary heart disease, as well as cardiovascular heart disease deaths in the United States every year. There has been so much effort to reverse tobacco and cigarette smoking through the years but its giant roll, not only in the United States but other countries as well, continues to stay present. When one smoker has a health related death caused from cigarette smoking another is created. It is a collective nation wide effort that has to continue in support of smokers to help understand & then quit. It is in our own benefit, as second hand smoking has its prominent role in lung cancer and other health related issues with non smokers.
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tobacco
industry continually adds new smokers to their ever growing list
everyday. The most disturbing fact of all is that mostly all
current and ex smokers all began smoking
in the early teens; Coincidence? I think not! This has been the tobacco company’s primary age group
target.
