Smoking KILLS: Know How?

Smoking is highly injurious to health. It not only affects your internal organs but also damages your external parts starting from head to toe i.e.

External parts of the body:

• Hair: - Smokers experience slow hair growth, thinning and graying of hair
• Eyes: - Smoking can leads to certain eye disorders such as glaucoma, cataract, macular degeneration, graves and even permanent blindness.
• Nose: - Smoking badly affects the smelling sensation or power
• Teeth: - Due to smoking teeth become yellowish, stained, and suffers from a number of diseases like gingivitis and gum disease.
• Hands: - Smoking causes tar stained fingers and peripheral vascular diseases.
• Legs and Feet: - Smoking leads to diseases such as gangrene and leg pain.
• Skin: - Premature ageing, scarring and wrinkles occurs due to smoking

Internal Organs of the body:

• Brain: - Smoking can cause certain diseases of brain such as cerebral thrombosis, blood clotting or thickening
• Mouth & Throat: - Smokers most often suffers from larynx, oral cavity and esophagus cancers and also have smelly breath
• Lungs & Respiratory System: - Smoking leads to lung cancer, cough, cold, asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis and chronic bronchitis
• Heart: - Smokers suffer from coronary heart diseases, hypertension, stroke and high cholesterol level.
• Digestive system: - Smoking results in a number of digestive system diseases such as crohn’s disease, gallstone, stomach cancer and peptic ulcers