You may be thinking that only long-term cigarette smoking leads to lung cancer and heart disease. But a recent study proved that smoking just one cigarette can also be disastrous and bad for your health. Read on …
- Smoking just one cigarette lowers the blood levels of Vitamin C in your body.
- It also lowers the levels of other important antioxidants in your body for sometime.
- It stops blood vessel walls from releasing nitric oxide, a substance that helps them relax and open.
- These changes combine to pinch the coronary arteries. The narrowed blood vessels make it difficult to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the hard working heart muscle.
- And yes, it is bad for your memory. It has been found that men who smoke heavily start losing their memory during their 40s and 50s, but men who don’t smoke have better memories.
The message is right and clear folks – even a single cigarette can stress the heart. So quit smoking !!!
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Smoking 1 cigarette causes cancer…? You are an idiot!
Hey Antonine, we never said that smoking one cigarette causes cancer, we just said it stresses your heart. But if you contuinue to stress your heart for a long time, then that may be bad for your health in the long run.
you must think that its easy to stop smoking all these commercials yal make about how to quit is bull s##t you can not jus quit in seven days the best way to stop smoking is for farmers to stop growing tobacco
my mum smokes and i no every time she does smoke i feel so sad coz i no wat it is doin to her and i no i will nver do it and when i think of her gettin heart problems or somethin i feel really sad and i am wantin to make my mum stop smokin but she wont listen to me but i no she is tiryin and i am fellin a bit beter about it and if she doesent soon maby soemthin will happen but i hope not and i ask god to help me and her and meny other people in the world that need to stop smokin i ask this in jesus name amen…………….
thats a sad stary
i dad drink it and i fell that something is going to happen to him i am scared
I AM TALLING PEOPLE TO NOT TO SMOKE IT IS BED FOR YOU if you do you will die
my mum smokes and i no every time she does smoke i feel so sad coz i no wat it is doin to her and i no i will nver do it and when i think of her gettin heart problems or somethin i feel really sad and i am wantin to make my mum stop smokin but she wont listen to me but i no she is tiryin and i am fellin a bit beter about it and if she doesent soon maby soemthin will happen but i hope not and i ask god to help me and her and meny other people in the world that need to stop smoking is a bad thing do not drink plz?………..
some people smoke in our family and they are still smoking if they get bad they will die cause they were smoking
hey every1 out thea
pliz stop smkin
its all bad!!!
u might nt even live up 2 your 50′s or 60′s.
PLIZ STOP SMOKING
N THATS AN ORDER!!!
dnt take it seriasly
what does a cigarete do to your respiratory system
Umm, i used to smoke and it was easy for me to stop so don’t say it’s way hard because it isn’t for some people. Smoking is very bad. DON’T DO IT! because my mum has lung cancer and she is at risk. so just don’t do it aye.
umm, if you smoke you get lung cancer,heart stroke and brain humor and you could die
and
i don’t like to smoke
u guys are restarted! if you smoke alot u will die! If u don’t smoke alot than u will have a nice life! OK! Thats all there is to it! I am 15 and I know more than all of u stupid ass people. How about u get some common sence.
hey hey people when you smoke it doesnt matter how many smokes u smoke ur still in danger of diein because you have paint toilt cleaner in u so you would still die because of all that toixic stuff in ur system (look at dat im in da sixth grade and know more im 11 years old thats a damn shame
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okay.. really?!?!?? just one damn cigarette??
lol i think thats bull.. ya its nasty..
i have one cigarrete. and i just think im gonna smoke it. it cant do that much can it.
what .. wow really just one cigarette.
well i dont believe that and i have only 1. and i just think i will try it. it cant be that harmful. just one out of ur whole life..
My research about smoking.
Smoking is a global problem. It is estimated that one in three adults smoke, with over 1 billion people smoking worldwide. The majority of these smokers reside in countries on the low end to the middle of the socioeconomic spectrum. Of this majority, about 80% live in low and middle-income countries. The total number of smokers worldwide is expected to keep on increasing each year.
The worldwide popularity of tobacco use varies by social class, historical era, and culture. Historically, smoking had been a pastime of the rich. However, this trend has changed dramatically in recent decades. It appears that financially advantaged men in wealthier countries have been smoking less in recent times.
The World Health Organization has been studying smoking trends and statistical patterns across the globe and has uncovered the following statistics:
1) Eastern Europe has a particularly high rate of smoking, with up to 59% of adult males smoking. Also, significantly more women smoke in Eastern Europe than in East Asia and the Pacific Region.
2) Most people who smoke, begin smoking before they are 25 years old. Worldwide observations suggest that people are stating to smoke at a much younger age. World Health Organization studies reveal that the majority of smokers in affluent countries; begin in their teens.
Smoking In The US
How do Americans compare to the rest of the world when it comes to smoking? It may come as no surprise to hear that Americans are no better than anyone else. According to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics:
3) In the US, it is estimated that 25.6 million men (25.2%) and 22.6 million women (20.7%) are smokers. These smokers face a higher risk of heart attack and stroke. Here are the latest estimates for smokers’ aged 18 and above:
4) Studies reveal that smoking popularity is significantly higher among people with 9-11 years of education (35.4%) compared with those with more than 16 years of education (11.6%).
5) There appears to be a correlation between a country’s standard of living, level of education, and income and the number of people who have quit smoking. The more and better-informed people are, the more likely they are to quit smoking.
6) People living below the poverty level (33.3%) are much more likely to start smoking.
7) Among whites, 25.1% of men and 21.7% of women smoke.
9) Among Asians, 21.3% of men and 6.9% of women smoke.
10) Among Hispanics/Latinos, 23.2% of men and 12.5% of women smoke.
11) Among American Indians/Alaska Natives, 32% of men and 36.9% of women smoke.
12) A shocking…1 out of every 5 five deaths is caused by tobacco
13) It is estimated that Tobacco is responsible for 400,000 deaths in the US every single year.
14) Cigarettes are responsible for about 25% of deaths from residential fires, causing nearly 1,000 fire-related deaths and 3,300 injuries each year.
15) Tobacco is blamed for many serious cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases
16) Nicotine and tobacco are some of the most potent carcinogens and are responsible for the majority of all cancers of the lung, larynx, trachea, esophagus and bronchus.
17) Smoking tobacco is known to produce cancer in the pancreas, kidney, bladder, and the cervix
18) Because tobacco reduces blood flow, nicotine addiction has been proven to cause impotency.
19) If you smoke, the risk of respiratory illnesses is high. This could lead to pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia, which are responsible for some 85,000 every year.
20) Children and adolescents who are active smokers will have increasingly severe respiratory illness, as they grow older
21) Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage and fetal growth retardation. It also causes about 5-6% of prenatal deaths, 17-26% of low-birth-weight births, and 7-10% of pre-term deliveries.
If you don’t want to quit smoking after reading these shocking figures, you really need to get your head examined. You know in your heart, what’s the right thing to do. Make a firm decision to quit today, and stick to it!
if u smoke it can kill u or damage your body and smoking can lower vitamin d in ur body and it stops your blood vessels and this goes out to all the people who smoke that’s 21 or over u need to stop smoking right now.
smoking is bad because it is i hate it i mean i tried it once it didnt do nutin but i am not gonna again i learned ma lesson when i did it it was like i hardly couldnt breath wen i would run or play but i am just saying i am not gonna do it again !!!!!!!!!!!!! that was a 1 thing only and it is gonna stop and i havent smoked latley and that is a gud t hing!!!!!! and when i mean lately i mean at alllllll !!!! i was 12 now i am 13 but i think i did it when i was like 11 but now i dont do it no more!!!
SO PLEASE THE PEOPLE THAT IS SMOKING PLEASE STOP IT IS NOT GUD FOR U .. DO U KNOW WAT SMOKING A CIGARET CAN DO TO U KILL U!!!! CAUSE CANCER AND U DONT WANT THAT BUT I THINK THE PEOPLE THAT DOES SMOKE DONT CARE CAUSE THEY KEEP DOING IT EVEN THOE THERE KIDS AND OTHERS TELL THEM TO STOP!!!!
PLEASE STOP SMOKING!!!
ONCE AGAIN PEOPLE PLEASE STOP SMOKING!!!!!!!! IT WELL HELP LOTS!!!!
mi dad he keeps on smoking and he wont stop so now what do i do cause my grandpa he was smoking and he had a heartatak and the doctor said “DO you want to LIVE or DO u want to DIE”? he said live grandpa and so the doctor said then stop smoking so now he is not smoking
HOW DO PEOPLE QUIT????????????????????????????????
smoking is really bad for your body it can lower levels as vitamin c and vitamin c helps you not to get sick but if you smoke you will get sick easily so please stop smoking it hurts your heart and others around you.
dude im 13 and im trying my first cigerete tonight and my first joint so what the hell you only live once the truth is your goin to die thats the unescable fact of hummanity you make healthy choices your going to live ten more years than i do but im going to live llife to the fullest and the sad truth is im going to try it once and be done with it so stop listining to this stuppid bullshit and live a little you do all this crap and you die look around you take a look at life do you really whant to live ten more extra years on this shit hole called life? i drink all the time i get 90% in all my classes with th exeptoin of two what i am trying to say here is undoe the deception.
ALLSO THAT ISNT MY EMAIL SO DONT SEND ANYTHING TO IT BECAUSE ITS NOT DOIN SHIT
smoking is bad because it is (are you kidding me….?)
i hardly couldnt breath (which means the same thing as “i could easily breathe”)
u need to stop smoking right now (yes, well why dont you go smoke a pack a day for 20 years and then just “stop smoking right now)
you have paint toilt cleaner in u so you would still die because of all that toixic stuff in ur system ( I am 100 percent sure that an FDA approved, government-regulated product would not contain paint or “toilt cleaner”. They contain chemicals such as toluene and acetone, so please don’t say that you know more despite the fact that you’re in sixth grade, because you know what propaganda tells you.)
dnt take it seriasly (don’t take the English language seriously)
Everyone. Please don’t post on boards and especially health articles unless you have a legitimate eductation and you’re mostly literate. It disgusts me to see people who dont bother typing with actual words and people who know next to nothing on the subject debate a topic as controversial as this one. Keep your bigoted remarks to yourself. Thank you
Are you all 9 years old? Guess what moron, if you Don’t smoke, you STILL WILL DIE! Try living your own life and stop bothering people. Do you think that there is a single smoker who doesn’t know this? If I lived near any of you, I would come to your house and Bitch slap you!
If I want to stop smoking what I have to do, can you help me?
Hy was reading this thread as I’m trying to quit at the moment but am stuck on half to one cigarette a day, I have to wonder wether those if you who have commented so simplistically about giving up smoking have actually smoked, because quiting is not easy at all, if you have never smoking FairPlay but you really shouldn’t be commenting on how hard it is to quit, and for all the stats my dad has just being diagnosed with terminal lung smoker wich has broke my heart, and here’s the shocker he’s a non smoker !! Would you believe that it’s not only smokers who get cancer! Those who encourage are mega those who criticise are idiot know it alls! Any way feel better now, I will succeed!