Is smoking injurious to Women? How?
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Absolutely. Women have more fatty tissues and the breast has dense tissue so it can be a common place for cancer to develop.  Smoking causes cancer, heart and respiratory disease and early death in all smokers.  It will also exacerbate all other weaknesses in a smoker's body. Smoking and pregnancy is particularly dangerous for mothers and babies. There is lots of information on all these aspects at http://www.quitguide.com  Have a read on the page called Smoking and Pregnancy for a start.
705608
Come out of the closet with smoking?  This is'nt the 1920's woman can smoke.  Gawd, I'd hate to see you get embarrassed over a fart.
723643
After I turned 25 or so, I stopped dating women who smoke.  It's a total deal-breaker.\n\n"Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray."
629721
All of us smokers or even ex-smokers have done and are doing damage to our veins,our hearts and our lungs among other things.(Alcohol also has it long term damaging health effects including heart problems.)\n  I would think it wise to seek medical advise ASAP!  Even the Physician's Assistant who did not care to say much more than you need to be seen for a full medical evaluation knows that!\n  If your problems are not serious atleast you will be advised and your mind put to ease but on the other hand,if something is going on that needs immediate attention you NEED to know ASAP. . .An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.\n   Ignoring the problem hoping it will keep until you get home or ignoring the problem thinking if it is not diagnosed\nit isn't happening is IGNORANCE in it's truest form.\n           SEEK PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ATTENTION
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Some of the Harmful effects smoking can cause are:\n\n1.straining on your heart and blood vessels.\n\nThe 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.\n\n2. heart attacks and stroke.\n\n It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers even end up having their limbs \namputated because of this.\n\n3. causes cancer.\n\nTar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney.A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.\n\n4. Emphysema.\n\nEmphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs away. Most People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.\n\n5. Lung cancer.\n\nLung cancer is caused by the tar in the tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.\n\n6. block blood vessels.\n\nSmoking causes fat deposits to narrow which is why blood vessels become blocked which leads to heart attack.\n\nI could go on and on but i am sure you want an answer today \n1-6 are the most common effects of smoking. Their are so many, You take a big risk with your health when you start to smoke. I hope i answed your ? to your liking.
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No, it doesn't. It sure does mess you up, though. Here's more information on tobacco (and how dangerous it is):\n\nhttp://www.fcda.org/tobacco.htm\nhttp://www.members.tripod.com/medicolegal/toxicchemicals.htm - Toxic chemicals.\nhttp://www.clevelandclinic.org/cancer/infoGen/vol10issue1.pd
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this is a bit rude and i mean no offence if any is caused\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwhat do you do if your girlfriend starts smoking\n\nslow down and use a lubricant
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Nicotine reduces cravings for food through centrally acting receptors (the duration of action is not that long so you've got to have a 20 a day habit) and increases gastric motility. It is however not medically recommended and trying to give up means you get a lot hungrier and put it all if not more back on. Your husband is bigger than you I assume so needs more food. Also women tend to snack outside meals more often and exercise less. There is monthly variation in women's weight mainly due to fluid retention and the fat distribution is different and overall greater as a percentage for women.\n\nIt does not increase metabolism as another poster has claimed
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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. \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!
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I don't think you'll find a verifiable answer to this question that is what you want to hear.\n\n1.  Smoking IS very bad for your health.\n2.  Smoking causes many forms of cancer.\n3.  Smoking harms those around you.\n4.  Smoke while pregnant is linked to many childhood disorders.\n\nAnd as to #5 - 10000000000000, i'm sure i can make a list, but suffice it to say, smoking is a dangerous and idiotic thing to do.
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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and smoking predispose you to a higher likelihood of blood clots than the average person.  Even if you were to get a blood clot very few of these clots actually cause a problem (pulmonary embolism) and even fewer cause serious complications from this problem (heart damage, pulmonary infarction, or death) especially for a 29 year old.  But there are certainly increased risks and those risks are not anything to ignore.\n\nYou have the power to stop the smoking...there's no time like now to start.  Believe me you will need to try more than once to get it right.  It is the single best thing you can do for your health.  \n\nAdditionally HRT is an elective medication.  There is virtually no absolute need for any woman to ever HAVE to take that medication.  \n\nYou have the power to change your lifestyle and habits.  There is no time like the present to begin.  Good luck.
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You can if you wan't to, but believe me it is best not to smoke, this could cause an infecton
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smoking i find is quite attractive. when i see a girl that smokes it kinda makes me remember the saying " If she smokes she pokes"
19945
Any kind of smoke is bad for you. If you smoke once in ahwile its not that bad. If you smoke as much as my roomate does then you may get cancer or have trouble breathing.
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I've never heard of or seen a girl do any kind of dip before. Personally, I think it's a disgusting habit for either sex. It can only do you harm in the long run and it causes mouth cancer a lot faster than cigarettes can cause lung cancer. A lot faster. Unless you have an iron stomach and can swallow the juice, carrying around an empty coke can or whatever to spit into just looks stupid.
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Yes. Very much so. And I'm a smoker. I do not smoke in public, around children, or around pregnant women. It is MY choice alone to die of cancer. Not theirs. I do not defend smokers in ANY way. Smoking is a dangerous habit that I wish I could control and quit. Unfortunately, I can't seem to stop. I've been a smoker for 18 yrs. and I will NEVER tell another human being to deal with MY habit in public because I have the right to smoke. They have more of a right to breath and to live with out being wrongly affected by me. I smoke in the privacy of my own home. I apologize for those smokers who do not get it, that WE are the offenders. Keep it up guys...maybe smoking will be banned.
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please fix your question....lesbian smoke? huh?