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You will be surprised to know that 15% of global deaths are attributed to smoking. Despite widespread awareness, smoking is a serious problem. Tobacco contains lots of toxic substances such as acetone and tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide. A typical cigarette contains 600 ingredients. When these ingredients burn they generate more than 7000 chemicals. Most of these chemicals are poisonous and at least 69 chemicals are linked to cancer. These toxins don’t just affect your lungs, they affect your entire body. The ill effects of smoking go on and on. Getting a smoking test done can awaken you to the dangers of regular smoking and encourage you to take preventive measures, such as reducing smoking or even quitting it.
Smoking affects the central nervous system due to the mood altering drug called nicotine. It is one of the most habit-forming substances. It is because of nicotine that it is so difficult to quit smoking. When you smoke, it reaches your brain in seconds and gives you an instant high. But the effect wears off very fast. You feel tired and you crave for more nicotine. This often results in chain-smoking.
Since most of the smoke goes into your lungs, smoking severely affects your respiratory system. It gives you chronic bronchitis with permanent inflammation of the breathing tubes. It also leads to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Many people who smoke get lung cancer.
Smokers don’t just affect their own health, they also affect the health of people around them. Children whose parents smoke are more prone to coughing, wheezing and asthma attacks.
Whether you regularly smoke or you are exposed to secondhand smoking (people around you smoke in closed enclosures such as home and office) you should definitely get a smoking test done urgently. Smoking, directly and indirectly, can have a negative impact on women, especially when they are pregnant. Smoking during pregnancy can increase the risk of miscarriage. Among infants, smoking by the parent can cause asthma, ear infections, growth problems, oxygen deprivation, physical deformities, and on many occasions, even sudden infant death syndrome among the newborn. Children whose parents smoke have a greater chance of developing asthma, pneumonia and various lung diseases later in life.