how do people died because of smoking?
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There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.
605592
Emphysema is the loss of the lungs recoil.  When you breath in your alveoli (air sacs) expand to get in as much air as possible.  When you exhale, the alveoli contract and squeeze the old air out.  With emphysema the alveloi loose the elasticity and fully expand, but don't fully contract and often become fragile and not fully functioning.  They can't utilize the oxygen they breath in and usually need supplemental oxygen.\n\nI often tell people we are all going to die.  Some peacefully and others painfully.  If the person hasn't quit the smoking habit (I don't know the person I just going off on the majority of people with emphysema smoke) then the possibility of living into the senior years before dying is quite high.  But, if they refuse to quit, then their lives will be short and painful.  Will there be a time when they will be dependent on oxygen, definitely.  But it is key to stop the reason for the injury
108202
I doubt (but don't know) that anyone has died from smoking from a hookah.  I'm sure there are some people that are allergic to it, and too much of anything can have bad effects.  I suggest doing an internet search.  : )
190285
The answer is NO!!!!!  You are playing with wild fire.  Smoking is only going to make your asthma symptoms worse and eventually you may end up with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD).  This means you will end of needing oxygen everywhere you go, depending on inhalers and breathing machines to keep you going and will be gasping for breath until the end of your life.  It is a nasty way to die.  By smoking you are playing Russian Roulette with your life.  Is it worth it to continue smoking????  My answer is NO!!!  Talk to your doctor and get the patch to help you quit smoking.  Also, stay away from 2nd hand smoke too for your lungs life.
434442
Smoking is addictive.  Cigarettes have many different chemicals in them along with tobacco - stuff like Ammonia, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Arsenic to name a few of the worst.  The longer you smoke the harder it is to give it up and when someone does it is usually because of a major health crises.  I know because I have seen.  I have never smoked but both my parents did.  My father had to give it up when he needed a bypass and his chances were given less than a 50% survival not because of his heart but because of the shape his lungs were in.  Smoking had done so much damage that no doctor was sure he would be able to make it out from under the anesthesia. Luckily he did and hasn't smoked since.  He also used to tell my brother and myself not to smoke because even though he knew the dangers he could not at the time quit.
886231
well, your lungs because when you walk,runplay basketball, play tennis or even golf. smoking effects your lungs and slows you down in any physical activity
126182
There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking. \nYou may not be able to talk him into quitting. Maybe you could talk him into atleast not smoking in the house and changing his clothes before holding the baby. This will atleast help the people who have to live with this be a little healthier. Good luck to you!
906687
this is a non-educated answer but if you think about it, it makes sense.\n\nsmoking causes cancer, high blood pressure and emphazima.\n\nbeing overweight causes high blood pressure, stroke, heart attacks, diabetes, high cholesterol and on and on and on.....\nthere are much more complications and other health risks caused by being overweight.  so it's not being overweight in general that causes the death but something that became because of being overweight!\n\ndoes that make sense?
705192
Killed their brain cells..Forgot to pick up a little brother or sister therefore putting them in harms way...caused accidents that claimed people's lives...clouded their own judgement and made them do crazy things....now the question is when is smoking marijauna ACTUALLY funny??? I think NEVER!! Let life pass them by...oh wait that's not funny either.\n\nBest Wishes...and GROW UP!
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It depends on the number of pack years the person has been smoking. A pack year is defined as an entire year in which a person  smokes a pack of cigarettes per day. For example, a person who smokes a pack per day for two years has two pack years of smoking history. This is equal to a person who smokes half a pack for four years; and to one who smokes two packs per day for a year. Generally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD: chronic bronchitis and emphysema), which is the more common cause of death in smokers occurs at around 20 pack years.\n\nTo compute for your current pack year, divide the number of sticks you smoke in a day by 20. Then multiply this by the number of years you have been smoking. Example, if I have been smoking for 10 years averaging 15 sticks per day, that's (15sticks/20sticks)x10years = 7.5 pack years.
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I knew all of the risks involved in smoking and started anyway because I simply just wanted to fit in.  Stupid I know, but I am proud to say that I quit smoking 2 years ago.  I also lost someone close to me to cancer.  It was my mother and she died of colon cancer.  She never smoked a day in her life.  Some people die from lung cancer and never smoke either.  Smoking is a highly addictive drug.  Even though people know what could happen to them, they just don't care anymore because the nicotine has control of them.  Its sad, but true.
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it can kill you is the obvious choice not to smoke..it stinks..rots your teeth and causes gum disease and the breath ewwwwww! It looks unattractive to see someone sucking on a cancer stick. You have to huddle together outside away from everyone while you're smoking cause it isn't allowed in any public place. It can kill your loved ones from second hand smoke. It costs a fortune, you would be better off spending all that money on your family or yourself.   It's very very addictive and sooooo very hard to kick.  You shorten your life. Your house stinks, your hair and clothes stink and the breath again ewwww.  You are limited to those who will date you, who wants to date a smoker, not many people anymore.  Hope this helps a bit.
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Smoking is in fact bad for your health.  Cigarettes are the only product sold in the United States that if used according to the directions can kill you.  Think about it, I wish I had of, or that we had the information then that we have now.  However all that aside I can atest firsthand that smoking is bad for you and can kill you.
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with out a doubt from alcohol. There are more deaths from alcohol then any other drugs.
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Are you talking about the smokers that have died?\n\n"Smoking Kills \n\nEvery year, more then 400,000 American deaths are attributed to smoking. It’s banned in restaurants, workplaces and other public areas. It’s illegal for cigarettes to be sold to anyone under 18. Yet even with all the loss of customers by death, tobacco companies still manage to make a profit. \n\nHow do they do it? There are numerous laws against smoking. In 1998, a law passed that made it illegal to smoke in bars. An internal Philip Morris document states, "[The] financial impact of smoking bans will be tremendous - three to five fewer cigarettes per day per smoker will reduce annual manufacturer profits a billion dollars plus per year." In an effort to keep their customers smoking, the companies trick the public with lies and loopholes. Their goal is to slow the antismoking movement and keep people smoking—to get more profits. \n\nWhat about the health of non-smokers? Reports from 1993 state second-hand smoke causes lung cancer and respiratory diseases. The same findings have been concluded by a hundred other major studies, and still the tobacco industry says the results are flawed. \n\nA Philip Morris inside report from 1987 discussed how anti-smoking movements and price increases prevented 600,000 teens from taking up smoking. In 1979, a memo noted that “Marlboro dominates in the 17 and younger age category…” and in ’78 “…the base of our business is the high school student…”. Even with these companies’ lies and tricks to get around antismoking laws, they still try to sell their products to children. Who could blame them, considering their product kills more than 2,000 of their American customers a day? They need to replace these consumers quickly, and what easier way to do so than convince impressionable teens that smoking is the ‘cool’ thing to do? Hey, it keeps the profits coming! \n\nAntismoking movements are just beginning to be heard. With a product that kills more Americans than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, illegal drugs, and fires combined, no law can be too strict. So, when you see a tobacco ad, are offered a cigarette, or have the choice whether or not to smoke, remember that tobacco companies are greedy money-grubbers. No matter who you are, you’re just another dollar sign in the eyes of Philip Morris. \n\nSmoking Kills is for the nonsmokers of the internet. We know the effects of smoking, and we're smart enough to stay away. Are you one of us?"
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In 2004 in the US there were 173,700 new cases of lung cancer and an estimated 160,440 deaths from lung cancer. Of those it is estimated that 87% are caused by smoking. Some 3,000 people die of lung cancer a year from second-hand smoke.\nI would expect that everyone who was diagnosed with lung cancer spends some time in hospital and so does everyone who dies - nice big number, isn't it?
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Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.\n\nWhen you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.\n\nAs a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.\n\nThe products that are most damaging are:\n\n    * tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer)\n\n    * nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in your body\n\n    * carbon monoxide reduces oxygen in the body\n\n    * components of the gas and particulate phases cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).\n\nThe damage caused by smoking is influenced by:\n\n    * the number of cigarettes smoked\n\n    * whether the cigarette has a filter\n\n    * how the tobacco has been prepared.