Facts You Need to Know About Smoking

• Posted by Evert Chris Dimalanta February 3, 2014 - Filed in Health - ##smoking #effectsofsmoking #health  - 992 views

  

   

   

  1. Smoking, even for a short time, increases women’s risk of suffering a debilitating disorder called peripheral artery disease or PAD. People with PAD have narrowed arteries in their extremities, often their legs, which reduce blood flow to the area and cause pain. A new study among 38,825 women studied, women who smoked were as much as 20 times more likely to develop PAD over a 13-year period than women who did not smoke. (Source: msnbc.msn.com)

   

  

   

  1. Secondhand smoke, a mixture of gases and fine particles, includes smoke from the burning end of cigarettes and the smoke exhaled by smokers. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds of these chemicals are toxic and about 70 can cause cancer. Secondhand smoke causes immediate harm and hurts anyone who inhales it. There is no safe amount of secondhand smoke. Inhaling even a little secondhand smoke can be dangerous. (source: www.cdc.gov)