Is smoking bad?!
Question:
Is smoking bad?
I do it but I dont know if it is good or not. Help!
Answers:
Smoking is associated with an increased overall morbidity and mortality. This was recognized early in the era of industrialized cigarette production and mass use. In the 1950s there were already reports linking cigarette smoking with the fast rise in the rate of lung cancer. Today knowledge of the deleterious health consequences of smoking is widely recognized, but smoking remains the number one cause of preventable death in developed countries.
Among smokers age 35 to 69 smoking accounts for a three fold increase in the death rate, and approximately half of all regular smokers that begin smoking during adolescence will be killed by tobacco.
In 2005 it was estimated that more than one in every six deaths in the USA was the result of smoking.
Smokers have more acute and chronic illnesses than never smokers, more bed disability days, and miss more school and work days .
Smokers make greater use of inpatient and outpatient hospital services and lower use of preventive care services.
Of all cancer deaths in the USA, 30% could be prevented if cigarette smoking was eliminated. Not just lung cancer!