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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Smoking cause many diseases including pancreas cancer

Cigarette smokers double their risk of heart attack. They are at even more risk from sudden cardiac death. Stroke kills more young smokers than nonsmokers.

Smoking tobacco harms almost every organ of human body, resulting in many diseases and effecting adversely to the overall health of smokers. Two of the most common ailments caused by smoking is heartburn and acid reflux. Tobacco weakens the sphincter in the oesophagus, therefore allowing stomach acid to flow upward into the oesophagus. Tobacco has also been known to double your chance of developing a peptic ulcer and chemicals in tobacco also hinder the healing of ulcers and make sufferers more likely to develop additional ulcers later in life. Doctors also believe that there is a link between the development of Crohn’s disease and the possible development of gallstones in tobacco users.

Cigarettes that have machine-measured yield of tar and nicotine do not have actual health benefit and can cause many kind of including bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and throat cancers, chronic lung diseases, coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases, as well as reproductive effects and sudden infant death syndrome. The list has been long-drawn-out to include acute myeloid leukemia, abdominal aortic aneurysm, cataract, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer, pneumonia, stomach cancer, and periodontitis.

Almost one-third of cases of pancreatic carcinoma can be attributed to cigarette smoking. Most lung cancers are caused by cigarette smoking. Smokers are five to ten times more likely to suffer from lung cancer than nonsmokers. The more cigarettes you smoke per day and the earlier you started smoking, the greater the risk of lung cancer.

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At 4:48 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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