Cigarettes more dangerous than ever
Smoking cigarettes can cause even more health problems than previously known, including liver and colon cancer, blindness, diabetes, and erectile dysfunction, said a major US government report on January 17. Top US health officials gathered at the White House to announce the latest Surgeon General's findings on the health consequences of smoking, five decades after the first landmark report of its kind alerted the public that smoking caused lung cancer.
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States, killing nearly half a million Americans a year.
"Amazingly, 50 years in we are still finding out new ways that tobacco maims and kills people," said Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director Thomas Frieden.
"Tobacco is even worse than we knew it was."
Active smoking is now known to be a cause of 13 different cancers, as well as diabetes and age-related macular degeneration, said the report.
Smoking can also cause tuberculosis, erectile dysfunction, facial clefts in babies, ectopic pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation, impaired immune function, and worsens the outlook for cancer patients and survivors.
Those who do not smoke but are exposed to second-hand smoke face an increased risk of stroke, said the report.
More than 20 million people in the United States have died from smoking related diseases and illnesses caused by second-hand smoke. Another 16 million people suffer from smoking-related conditions.
"Enough is enough," said Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, warning that modern cigarettes are more potent and more dangerous than ever.
"Smokers today have a greater risk of developing lung cancer than they did when the first Surgeon General's report was released in 1964, even though they smoke fewer cigarettes," said Lushniak.
Smoking rates are way down in the United States. Eighteen percent of people here now smoke compared to 42 percent five decades ago.
But if the current smoking rate does not drop further, one in 13 children alive today will be felled by a disease linked to smoking, the report added.
http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172/1145254/
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Stop smoking brehs, and this is coming from somebody who smoked heavily for 10 years (and whose screen name is about smoking). Stop while you still can
Smoking cigarettes can cause even more health problems than previously known, including liver and colon cancer, blindness, diabetes, and erectile dysfunction, said a major US government report on January 17. Top US health officials gathered at the White House to announce the latest Surgeon General's findings on the health consequences of smoking, five decades after the first landmark report of its kind alerted the public that smoking caused lung cancer.
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States, killing nearly half a million Americans a year.
"Amazingly, 50 years in we are still finding out new ways that tobacco maims and kills people," said Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director Thomas Frieden.
"Tobacco is even worse than we knew it was."
Active smoking is now known to be a cause of 13 different cancers, as well as diabetes and age-related macular degeneration, said the report.
Smoking can also cause tuberculosis, erectile dysfunction, facial clefts in babies, ectopic pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation, impaired immune function, and worsens the outlook for cancer patients and survivors.
Those who do not smoke but are exposed to second-hand smoke face an increased risk of stroke, said the report.
More than 20 million people in the United States have died from smoking related diseases and illnesses caused by second-hand smoke. Another 16 million people suffer from smoking-related conditions.
"Enough is enough," said Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, warning that modern cigarettes are more potent and more dangerous than ever.
"Smokers today have a greater risk of developing lung cancer than they did when the first Surgeon General's report was released in 1964, even though they smoke fewer cigarettes," said Lushniak.
Smoking rates are way down in the United States. Eighteen percent of people here now smoke compared to 42 percent five decades ago.
But if the current smoking rate does not drop further, one in 13 children alive today will be felled by a disease linked to smoking, the report added.
http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172/1145254/
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Stop smoking brehs, and this is coming from somebody who smoked heavily for 10 years (and whose screen name is about smoking). Stop while you still can
) so I literally can't smoke cigs or it hurts my lungs. It doesn't seem like quitting cold turkey works unless you're really strong minded, I know smokers who actually prefer e-cigs that's why I was suggesting that. I just smoke weed 
, how do NYers afford to smoke....shyt 
