what can smoke cause? please make the sentences clear and easy to understand?
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How Smoking Affects Your Body\nThere's hardly a part of the human body that's not affected by the chemicals in the cigarettes you smoke. Let's take a tour of your body to look at how smoking affects it.\n\nStarting at the Top\n\nAs a smoker, you're at risk for cancer of the mouth. Tobacco smoke can also cause gum disease, tooth decay and bad breath. The teeth become unsightly and yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And lack of oxygen and narrowed blood vessels to the brain can lead to strokes.\n\nLungs and Bronchi\n\nMoving down to your chest, smoke passes through the bronchi, or breathing tubes. Hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals in the smoke attack the lining of the bronchi, inflaming them and causing that chronic smoker's cough. Because the bronchi are weakened, you're more likely to get bronchial infections. Mucus secretion in your lungs is impaired, also leading to chronic coughing. Smokers are 10 times as likely to get lung cancer and emphysema as nonsmokers.\n\nSmoking and the Heart\n\nThe effects of smoking on your heart are devastating. Nicotine raises blood pressure and makes the blood clot more easily. Carbon monoxide robs the blood of oxygen and leads to the development of cholesterol deposits on the artery walls. All of these effects add up to an increased risk of heart attack. In addition, the poor circulation resulting from cholesterol deposits can cause strokes, loss of circulation in fingers and toes and impotence.\n\nSmoking and the Body's Organs\n\nThe digestive system is also affected. The tars in smoke can trigger cancer of the esophagus and throat. Smoking causes increased stomach acid secretion, leading to heartburn and ulcers. Smokers have higher rates of deadly pancreatic cancer. Many of the carcinogens from cigarettes are excreted in the urine where their presence can cause bladder cancer, which is often fatal. High blood pressure from smoking can damage the kidneys.\n\nThe Results\n\nThe health effects of smoking have results we can measure. Forty percent of men who are heavy smokers will die before they reach retirement age, as compared to only 18 percent of nonsmokers. Women who smoke face an increased risk of cervical cancer, and pregnant women who smoke take a chance with the health of their unborn babies.\n\nBut the good news is that when you quit smoking your body begins to repair itself. Ten years after you quit, your body has repaired most of the damage smoking caused. Those who wait until cancer or emphysema has set in aren't so lucky—these conditions are usually fatal. It's one more reason to take the big step and quit now.
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You know,I don't understand all the negativity of the answers to this question.This person is trying to help people understand some of the terrible effects of smoking.Yes,there are people who get cancer and other illnesses that don't smoke (and that is tragic),but there are a great many people who get illnesses from smoking.This advice may or may not help you quit,but I believe that if this helps even one person decide to quit,it is well worth it.Thanks for sharing your experience,and good luck!
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It kills them indirectly.\n\nThe smoking releases a rush of neurotransmitters (the chemicals neurons use to transmit signals to one another) at a much higher rate than normal. \n\nTo keep themselves from being overly stimulated, the neurons let the neurotransmitter receptors on their membranes die off.\n\nAs a person smokes more and more, more and mroe recepts are allowed to die.\n\nWhenever the person is not smoking, the neurotransmitter signals return to normal levels but are not received since the neurons let the receptors die off.\n\nWhen a neuron isn't used enough, the brain pretty much kills it to conserve energy/nutrients for the ones that are used.\n\nThe more you smoke, the more smoke is needed to achieve a high and the more brain cells die afterward.
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Smoke is a suspension in air (aerosol) of small particles resulting from incomplete combustion of a fuel. It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires (including stoves and lamps) and fireplaces, but may also be used for pest control (cf. fumigation), communication (smoke signals), defense (smoke-screen) or inhalation of tobacco or other drugs. Smoke is also sometimes a component of internal combustion engine exhaust gas, particularly diesel exhaust.
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both are, any smoke that is breathed by someone not smoking that cigartee.  For example I have asthma, so alot of smoke, or at times just a little can make me physcially sick.
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♥i don't smoke. smoking can be hazardous to your health♥
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Honey,it's a sign of the times. Don't try to figure it out.I'm a smoker too,but I have three grown son's and none of them smoke.It's my smoke.So I'm careful to keep it out of other peoples air space.
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well, it depends if you had replaced smoking with eating, or chewing gum, then yes ,coz you are inhaling air when you eat or chew a lot, so what goes in must come out so to speak.
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Some people smoke until they are 90 without any ill effects. Those people are in the minority. You have a pretty good chance of coming down with some smoking related illness if you smoke that long.
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3 Questions\n1) What's a coleg? \n2) What are you smoking?\n3) Ever heard of a sentence?
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The main way it affects it is this.  Smoke particles block up the alvioli in the lungs and that is where the exchange of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood cells take place - the more are blocked, the less oxygen can get into the bloodstream and the less oxygen gets to the body's vital organs.  Cigarettes also contains tar which also blocks up the lungs and small traces of arsenic (a poison) which is stored by the body and builds up over a period of time.  As to diseases:\n\nAsthma, Emphysema, permanently stained teeth and fingers, Gingivitis, Gangrene, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acute myeloid leukemia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach; abdominal aortic aneurysm, chronic bronchitis, cataracts, periodontitis and pneumonia, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer or erectile disfunction, increased chances of getting breast cancer, cancer of the bladder, eosophagus, larynx, lung, mouth, throat, linked to chronic lung disease, chronic heart and cardiovascular disease as well as reproductive problems. Expect to die 10 to 15 years earlier than non-smokers. \n\nHope that helps.
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Nonsmokers have some serious issues with "control" when they start talking about not smoking outside. Just walk around the smoker huddled next to the ash can, it's really not that difficult. If he's not huddled next to the ash can do that silly fake cough thing, that will show him. Sigh.
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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.
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The effect of the cigarrete smoke on artery narrowing is independent of cholesterol.  Smoking causes dysfunction of the lining of the arteries, which over time causes blockages.  Quit smoking for the sake of quitting...don't look at the cholesterol numbers in that respect. If you have high cholesterol and are smking, your chance of stroke and heart attack are considerably increased.
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A 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.
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A lot of questions. First cigarette smoke contains nicotine and Carbon monoxide and tear and further for the body toxic ingredients, which have following effect. Nicotine increases the vascular tension of small arteries, which causes the bloodpressure to rise. There may ba also a transient increase in respiratory rate through a centrally stimulating effect. If a patient has a rapid respiratory rate, it can be caused by insufficient gas exchange through in the lung. The effectiveness of the lungs gas exchange gets worse, through longterm smoking exposure. tear and toxic ingredients seize the function of the microvilli, which are little mobile hairlike formations on the surface of bronchial cells. Their job is to transport little foreign bodies and mucus etc. out of the lung. Small areas of the lung are being plugged up and are getting inflamed. The person developes chronic bronchitis with a decrease of normally functioning lung tissue. Also Atelectasis may develop. \nThere are many reasons, why bloddpressure rises. Smoking is one of them, often it is not clear if smoking or other causes i.e. genetic predeterminatiion are contributing to high blood pressure.\nSecond the blood pressure measured is the pressure created by the left heart. If right heart pressure rises, that means thge left heart is unable to transport enough blood away form the right heart outflow, which can cause eventually pulmonary hypertension or high bloodpressure in the pulmonary arteries (the one going away from the right heart). That happens, when the left heart does not work right.\nFor smokers the blood pressure is normally only high in the left heart outflow system.\nPlasma flow is widely independent from blood systolic  pressure alone. To assess plasma flow, the osmotic venous pressures also need to be known.\nThe body usually tries to maintain homeostasis.\nThat means acutely (when the bloodpressure goes up suddenly) ANP counteracts that development and ANP goes up. Chronically elevated BP would probably not change the ANP Level. Accordingly with Aldosterone. That means the Aldosterone level would go down with sudden elevated BP
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Well, it's not smoke....The blue haze found over the Great Smoky Mountains is caused by changes in the weather, temperature and moisture in the air. The smoke is like fog and low-level clouds! They are often covered by low-lying clouds.