As a man walked a desolate beach one cold, gray morning he began to see another figure, far in the distance. Slowly the two approached each other, and he could make out a man who kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he hurled things into the ocean. As the distance between them continued to narrow, the man could see that the man in the distance was picking up starfish that had been washed upon the beach and, one at a time, was throwing them back into the water. Puzzled, the man approached the him and asked what he was doing.

"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."

"But there must be thousands of starfish on this beach," the man replied. "You can't possibly get to all of them. There are just too many. And this same thing is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"

The man smiled, bent down and picked up another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"

Effects of Smoking The harmful effects of smoking on the body and overall health of smokers presented in the list below, only begins to convey some of the short and long term side effects of smoking cigarettes.

Quitting makes sense for many reasons but simply put: smoking kills and the effects of second hand smoke are also bad for the health of those around you.

Harmful Health Effects of Smoking

• Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS.
• One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
• Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
• The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
• This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
  amputated.
• Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
• Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
• Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
• Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering.
• Emphysema for example is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
• Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.
• Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
• Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
• Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
• Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
• In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking
• Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.

As mentioned earlier, this list can only begin to convey some of the long and short term effects of smoking cigarettes. We know that smoking kills and that quitting makes sense but what about the the effect on others?


SMOKING IT KILLS !!! By Vivek Sonasaria Smoking it kills for sure. Smoking reduces your stamina, it make you feel tired and defenseless. Out of addiction one smoke again and again but slowly slowly it capture on your heart and lungs. It make a male impotent and female has chances to lose their fertility. I am not good at writing thing but still i have tried some, to show different type of effects of smoking.

Head to toe - smoking effects can be seen on each part of your body. Let's go step by step and find out the dangerous smoking effects on your body.

Hair

Let's begin from the top i.e. your hair. Smoking effects can be felt on your hair. You hair becomes smelly and stained due to instant smoking effects. Slow hair growth, thinning and graying of hair is also believed to be a direct smoking effect. Your hair will look and feel lifeless and dull.

Brain

Smoking effects on brain are highly dangerous. Blockage of carotid artery may cut off the blood supply to the brain cells, which results in stroke (cerebral thrombosis). Blood thickening and clotting are also serious smoking effects and smokers are 1.5 times more likely to have stroke as compared to non-smokers.

Eyes

Dangerous smoking effects on eyes include common eye diseases such as Graves' ophthalmopathy, age- related mascular degeneration, glaucoma and cataract. The worst smoking effect on eyes can be permanent blindness.

Nose

Smoking effects on your nose can rob you of your sense of smell.

Teeth and Gums

Do you ever wonder why your teeth are so yellow and stained? Do your gums bleed every morning you wake up? Well, it's because of the direct smoking effect on your teeth. Also smoking effects are not limited to the appearance of your teeth but also results in plaque, loose teeth, gum disease and gingivitis.

Mouth and Throat

All cancers associated with the larynx, oral cavity and esophagus are fatal smoking effects. The less dangerous smoking effects are reduced sense of taste, sore throat and smelly breath.

Hands

Poor blood circulation which leads to cold fingers, tar stained fingers, peripheral vascular disease and amputation due to gangrene are some of the heart-wrenching smoking effects.

Lungs and Respiratory System

The most dreaded lung cancer, feeling out of breath, colds and flu, pneumonia, asthma, cough and sputum, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema, phew... are all smoking effects which will more or less make your life hell.

Heart

Two immediate smoking effects on heart and circulation are an increase in your heartbeat rate and a sharp rise in blood pressure.

Long term smoking effects are increase in the blood cholesterol and fibrinogen levels and increase in chances of having a heart attack. Smoking effects on your heart leads to coronary heart disease, aneurysm, peripheral vascular disease, stroke etc.

Digestive System

Smoking effects are heartburn, peptic ulcers, Crohn's disease, gallstones and stomach cancer.

Skin

Wrinkles, capillaries and premature ageing and scarring are few smoking effects on skin.

Legs and Feet

Beurger's disease, leg pain and gangrene are painful smoking effects.

PEOPLE ARE QUITTING SMOKING, TO LIVE A HAPPIER, LONGER, HEALTHIER LIFE,  WHEN WILL YOU!!!!

Smoking produces smoke (surprise!) which is inhaled by smokers. The smoke carries a host of terrible terrible chemicals as well as being... well, smoke. In a smokers lungs the nicotine is absorbed by lung tissue to give a slight buzz. Unfortunatly the smoke and other chemicals do damage to a smokers lungs by harming its natural cleaning systems. Ciggarette smoke also leaves a layer of tar on the inside of smokers lungs. A year of smoking 1 pack a day (20 ciggarettes) leaves the equivalant of one cup of tar in your lung!! EWWWWWW!!

The lungs are arguable affected most but nearly every system in your body is negitivly affected. Nicotine makes blood vessels shrink in diameter, which makes your heart need to work harder. Your skin begins to worsen because it cannot get enough oxygen through the smaller blood vessels. The blood itself is affected because carbon monoxide from smoke passes immediately into the bloodstream, further lessening the bloods ability to carry oxygen.


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Many smokers are of the view that smoking is only limited to them. They are at fault and forget that every other person within their family, their house and their society is getting infected with this smoke. The impacts of the cigarette and smoking are not just related to the people, the outer environment is also getting affected with this dreadful thing. This reason is enough to inform any smoker as why quit smoking is essential for everyone besides this own self.



Smoking effects babies



Children are at much harm as far as the smoking is concerned. The phenomena of second hand smoking are better to discuss. When anyone within family smokes, they are infecting their kids with the smoke. The immunity systems of the kids are not well developed and organized. They easily fall victim to the harmful effects of cigarette and smoking.

Many diseases can originate and start among kids due to smoking, however many crucial and harmful problems are respiratory problems, cardiovascular infections and ear problems.

Cigarette contains around 4000 harmful chemicals and all such chemicals are like poisonous for kids. Nicotine, carbon monoxide, tar and carcinogen are the few names in this category. Carbon monoxide is so dangerous that it even replaces the oxygen from the blood stream and reaches all other body parts thus leading to the deficiency of oxygen. It eventually becomes the start of the main problem among many children. Cardiovascular problem arises when heart finds it hard to compensate for the loss of oxygen. It starts to pump hard and thus puts more pressure. Heart attack and many other heart problems start right from this point.

Nicotine is the main substance which causes an addiction to smoking habit. Besides addiction, it also changes mood of a person, thus when a child starts smoking, he is inviting many lungs and stomach problem inside him. Such child may also get addicted to the other forms of drugs like heroin and cocaine.

Many respiratory problems are also one of the causes of smoking. When smoke enters the body of any child, it goes into the lungs and thus destroys them. Bronchi and the air sacs are the main areas which are responsible for the inhalation and exhalation of the fresh air. When smoke surrounds lungs, it becomes difficult for the air sacs to work properly. Lungs don’t get enough space to expand fully. This way many lungs and respiratory problems are raised.

Many forms of cancers are also linked with the smoking. Tobacco causes mouth to go dry and thus leads to mouth cancer. It can also lead to throat, oesophagus, stomach and intestinal problems. All problem start from the mouth cavity.

The impacts of the second hand smoking are more on kids. According to the study, 85 percent of the kids fall victim to the second hand smoking and thus develop ear infection.

Children must be kept away from the direct as well as indirect effects of smoking.

People may smoke to look cool. People may smoke because of peer pressure, because they want to hang out with friends who take cigarette breaks and you don't want to appear different. Or people may be unable to stop smoking because they are too addicted. Smoking has extremely negative effects, especially on a health and appearance. Smoking affects not only the smoker, but also those in his or her proximity.

1. Smoking is Bad for Your Long-term Health
   • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smoking is the leading cause of fatal lung disease and can also lead to various cancers, coronary heart disease, strokes and reduced blood circulation.
     
     
   Smoking is Hazardous to Other People's Long-term Health
   • According to the U.S. Surgeon General, breathing other people's smoke, known as secondhand smoke, can shorten a person's lifespan. Secondhand smoke also causes cancers and respiratory diseases in both children and adults. In fact, secondhand smoke often contains more cancer-causing and toxic chemicals than those found in smoke a person inhales himself.
     
     
   Smoking Can Repel Non-smokers
   • A non-smoker may see your smoking as off-putting. How would you feel if you were around a person who smelled terrible all the time and blew nasty-smelling air around you? A smoker may lose out on dating opportunities or chances to make new friends among non-smokers who detest the habit.
     
     
   Smoking Makes You and Others Smell Bad
   • Smoking makes your breath smell like an ashtray. Smoke also tends to cling to clothing. Spending time in a bar or restaurant that allows smoking in a non-ventilated area will make a person smell like an ashtray at the end of the night, even if that person did not smoke.
     
     
   Smoking Can Hinder Breathing
   • Smoking can make breathing difficult. Smokers often have coughing fits, even when not actually smoking. Furthermore, inhaling secondhand smoke can make breathing difficult. Furthermore, it can spark and worsen symptoms of asthma attacks in children, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
     
     
   Smoking Harms Fetuses
   • Smoking can have a negative effect on a woman's unborn child. If a pregnant woman smokes during her pregnancy or inhales someone else's smoke constantly, she can pass unwanted prenatal diseases to the fetus. Kicking a smoking habit in your first trimester of a pregnancy could lower a woman's risk for delivering a preterm or small-for-gestational-age baby, a 2009 study published in the Obstetrics & Gynecology medical journal found.
     
     
   Smoking Can Cause Oral Problems
   • Smoking can make a person lose teeth. People with gum disease who quit smoking during their dental treatments showed more symptoms of recovery, according to a 2005 study by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
     
     
   Smoking is Bad for Your Skin
   • Smoking increases a person's risk of developing wrinkles on her face. A 2008 Israeli study, published in the International Journal of Dermatology, found facial wrinkling was more likely to be seen among smokers than among nonsmokers.
     
     
   Smoking Discolors Walls
   • Smoke stains walls. If a smoker plans on selling your house and has smoked at home regularly, he may want to consider painting the walls.
     
     
   Smoking is addictive
   • It is difficult to quit smoking. Nicotine is a addictive drug and quitting it can lead to unpleasant symptoms of withdrawal. Smokers who have recently kicked the habit are often irritable or angry, may shake a lot and get headaches.
     
     

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