Smoking and Disease

The popularity of cigarettes into the phenomenon of twentieth century. The number of smokers increased since the early 1990s shortly after the introduction of new technologies of mass produsi coupled with incessant advertising campaign. Shortly thereafter came reports of an association between smoking and diseases such as lung cancer.

Today, tobacco use is recognized as a major cause of the emergence of various diseases. It is not surprising anymore. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4000 types of chemicals, 63 of which small amounts of carcinogens and toxic elements such as cyanide, arsenic, and formaldehyde. In addition, the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke replaces oxygen in red blood cells, which deplete oxygen from the tissues of the body.

The soft tissues oral cavity, throat, and vocal cords (larynx) were repeatedly exposed to cigarette smoke exposure. After the smoke through the oral cavity, sekitra 70-90% of compounds that are inhaled will be stuck in the lungs. Several times a sniff of cigarettes would reduce the effectiveness of fine hairs (cilia) on the lining of bronchi. Cilia or hairlike feathers this subtle body that usually works like a broom to clean foreign particles out of the lungs. Sucking a cigarette alone would slow the movement of these hair feathers sweeping dive nearly an hour.
Moreover, chain-smoke on a regular basis, it surely will stifle the feathers of hair, so that lung parupun easily be exposed to billions of small particles from cigarette smoke. When most of the hair coat is off, particles from cigarette smoke also began to accumulate and damage lung tissue. When the inside of the lungs menjadiu cold, will form a sticky brown layer on the inner walls of the respiratory tract. This layer contains other chemicals that can cause cancer.

Therefore, we either inhaling cigarette smoke or we smoke, they are very harmful to the health of our bodies. If you do not smoke, do not start it. Conversely, if you already did it, not too late to change it. Avoiding cigarette smoke and the activities of "smoke" can prolong your life