What are the dangers of smoking?
Human beings that use tobacco on a regular basis have the number one risk from smoking, and that is damage to their own physiology. I'll go through a list of those. The second risk of smoking is what happens when that cigarette that's lit puts something else on fire. Fires throughout the world caused by cigarettes have a significant loss of life that many people don't really consider, and loss of property. So, if you come back to the initial smoker, the one who makes the choice to light the cigarette and use this product to deliver smoke to their body so they can get nicotine to their brain to feel good, the consequences are, starting where it first goes in: lip cancer, tongue cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, stomache cancer. The list of cancers is about sixty. Sixty different cancers in the human body are increased in someone who chooses to use tobacco. The number one of all the cancers is lung cancer. The heavier of smoker you are, the higher rate of lung cancer. The second organ that's affected once it goes into the airways, into the lungs, it gets pumped right to the heart. The heart is significantly affected. Heart attack rates are higher. Chronic obstructive lung disease is number three. Emphysema and bronchitis, meaning you can no longer exchange gas, and you eventually end up on oxygen. That is primarily eighty-five to ninety percent a tobacco-related disorder. In fact, half of all diseases that pulmonologists see are just because people chose to smoke until it makes them sick. All preventable! Other forms of disease include constriction of the arteries. We call that peripheral vascular disease, meaning people get strokes, people lose the function of their kidneys, they have to have their feet or their legs cut off because they don't get enough blood supply because their arteries become too small to transmit enough oxygen. And when you add all of that together, what we know is that one out of every two smokers who smoke through their adult life die prematurely of a tobacco-related illness. Preventable! Fifty percent of adult smokers are going to have a consequence of smoking that's going to end their life before it normally would have. The other half that are still alive and didn't die prematurely, die miserably because they have emphysema, or their heart doesn't work and they have congestive failure, or they've had a stroke. It's not a pleasant thing to live a life with cigarette smoking.
