smoking and cardiovascular disease

• Health is the state of physical and mental well-being, with factors working together and affecting physical and mental health.
• A disease is a disorder that affects an organism's body, organs, tissues or cells.
• Smoking increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in several ways: it damages the lining of the arteries, reduces the amount of oxygen that can be carried by the blood, increases the heart rate, and increases the likelihood of blood clotting.
• Inhalation of carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas produced during incomplete combustion in cigarette smoke, reduces the amount of oxygen that can be carried by the blood.
• The addictive substance found in tobacco and tobacco smoke, nicotine, increases the heart rate, putting strain on the heart.
• Chemicals in cigarette smoke increase the likelihood of blood clotting.
• Smoking may result in lung diseases such as COPD, which includes diseases like chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
• COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the name to several lung diseases that restrict air flow in the lungs and cause breathing difficulties for a patient.
• Carbon dioxide is a by-product of respiration.
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage and can lead to babies and children being more likely to suffer from respiratory infections and an increased risk of asthma.
• The trend in the rate of developing lung cancer for women has been increasing, while in men is decreasing, due to the increase in female smokers in the 1950s and 1960s before starting to fall.
• When parents smoke, there is a greater risk of cot death – sudden infant death syndrome.
• Almost all cases of lung cancer lead to death.
• COPD is a condition that affects the lungs and can lead to breathlessness and difficulty in obtaining the oxygen required for respiration.
• Lung cancer is a condition caused by carcinogens in cigarette smoke, with almost all cases being linked to smoking.
• The damage caused by COPD is permanent and the disease cannot be cured, potentially leading to death.
• It is essential that the person seeks medical help to try to prevent progression of the disease.
• Smoking damages the bronchioles, the many small, branching tubules into which the bronchi subdivide, and can eventually destroy many of the alveoli.
• In COPD, the airways become inflamed and mucus is produced.