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How Does Smoking Effect Us?

Now lets take a peak at some of the diseases your death sticks can cause

Heart & Circulatory
-Heart disease
-Atherosclerosis - fat deposits in the arteries, causes strokes, peripheral vascular disease, gangrene, and aneurisms
-Buerger's disease, which can lead to gangrene.
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Cancer
-Lung, Mouth, nose and throat, Larynx, Esophagus, Pancreas, Bladder, Stomach, Myeloid leukaemia, Kidney.
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Respiratory
-Chronic bronchitis, emphysema and other lung diseases
- Infections in the airways
-Damage and loss of efficiency in the lungs.
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Other
-Peptic ulcers (stomach & duodenum) increase both in incidence and the time they take to heal
-Defective Vision and other eye diseases such as cataract
-Loss of manhood/womanhood (fertility)
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