PART 3.
Proven health-impairing consequences of smoking
“Tobacco has been shown to cause about twenty five
lifethreatening diseases, or groups diseases”.

A./ Smoking related diseases

• Smoking is one of the risk factors of lung, laryngeal, oral, esophageal and bladder cancers.
• Among smokers chronic respiratory infections are of frequent occurrence.
• Smoking is a risk factor of cardiovascular diseases.
• Smokers are often exposed to ulcerous diseases.
• Environmental tobacco smoke endangers the health of non-smokers, too.
• Non-smoker wives of smoker husbands are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smoker wives of non-smoker husbands.
• Environmental tobacco smoke aggravate the complaints of heart patients and increases the risk of death by heart infarction.
• A pregnant smoker jeopardises her own health and that of her unborn child.
• Smoking during pregnancy leads to more frequent foetal death, miscarriage, premature birth and during parturition.
• Smoking during pregnancy will retard the development of the embryo, hence it will diminish the weight, length, head and breast circumference of the new-born.
• Smoking during the breast-feeding period will damage the baby’s health -- the milk was ill “pass on” the poisons elements of tobacco smoke. Smoking during pregnancy may imperil the mental capacity of the child.
• Among the new-born of pregnant smokers respiratory infections are frequent.
• The father’s being smoker increases the cancer risk of the progeny (A spermatocyte damaged through smoking may pass on the inclination to cancer).
• Among the new-born of pregnant smokers the thyroid gland is often larger in size.
• Smoking has a share in development and aggravation of the disorder with eye symptoms.
• Smoking may lead to impotence.
• Smoking is detrimental to fertilisation.
• Smoker patients absorb medicaments quicker than usual, proving thus to be less efficient then in the case of non-smokers. Generally smokers appear to be taken more medicaments than non-smokers do.
• *In locomotor disorders: Smoking has a share in development of necrosis of “caput femoris” and in aggravation of other symptoms for articulations.
• Smoking is one of causal factors of gingivitis and periodontal diseases.
• Inveterate smoking is one of the causes of old-age blindness.
• Smoking is one of the risk factors of osteoporosis.
• Smoking diminishes the C, B-1 and B-6 content of the organism.

B./ Smoking attributed deaths in the World

In populations where cigarette smoking has been common for several decades, about 90-95 % of lung cancer, 30-35 % of all other cancer --- among men the proportion is 40-45 % --- , 80-85 % of chronic diseases of the respiratory system and 20-25 % of cardiac and cardiovascular deaths are attributable to tobacco!

C/ Smoking attributed deaths in Hungary

Analitic survey reveal that we lose more tha 80 persons a day, and approximately 30 thousand a year due to smoking!
A PERSON DIES EVERY 20 MINUTES IN HUNGARY AS A CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING !

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