Cigarette Smoking & Its Dangers

Cigarette smoking serves as a major cause of premature death, which is preventable, especially in the developed world. Apart from being the major cause of these preventable deaths, it first leads to Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). This is a situation whereby the blood vessels linking the heart muscles become constricted thereby resulting in chest pains (angina) or heart attacks.

The image above shows coronary arteries (coronary arteries are the blood vessel supplying blood to the heart). The narrowed arteries restrict the flow of blow to the body. This scenario is peculiar in smokers.

The consequences of this heart attack are that:

The heart becomes damaged thereby resulting in heart failure or its inability to pump blood satisfactorily.

The lungs and the limbs of the smoker become swollen by the building-up of the body fluid. This is the situation being referred to as heart failure because the body cannot metabolize as a result of the heart not being able regulate the flow of the blood in the body again. Disability and death are very common to the victim at this stage.

The heart becomes blackened with an internal chamber "smoky" layout. This is due to a stagnation or stoppage of flow due usu. to obstruction in the main chamber of the heart referred to as the left ventricle (LV).

The left ventricle (LV) becomes enlarged, with thin and damaged walls as a result of which the rate of its contract reduces.

The side-effect of smoking

Smokers stand a great risk of being victims of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

Research revealed that the death rate of smokers is at a higher rate of 60% - 70% than that of non-smokers.

Considering women, those who smokes cigarettes have 10 times higher risk of contracting coronary artery disease (CAD) than their counterparts who don’t smoke.

Youths who smoke cigarette can experience unexpected, unforeseen or abrupt death as the first symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD) in them.

Cigarette smokers stand a greater risk of developing lung cancer, which in most cases leads to death if not cured as quickly as possible.

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