what happens when you smoke?!


Question: What happens when you smoke?
can smoking cigarettes make you stay short? my friends are 14 years old and they're always smoking... so i wanted to ask what could happen to them? will they stay short? will they not grow in a normal rate? and what about the effects? what happens when you smoke?

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i started smoking when i was thirteen. Not much, just a couple smokes here and there. Time went on... by 16 was smoking bit over a half pack. Now im 23 and you know those guys who go in the store and buy 2 packs at a time? thats me, and i hate myself for it. People say it stunts your growth, the reality is that it stunts everything. 100% of your body will be affected. I am a pretty short person and i blame cigarettes to an extent.

Dont get me wrong i love smoking, but i wish i dint! lol the best way to avoid the massive challenge of quitting is not starting. At 14 quitting will be easier. If you dont intend to smoke the rest of your life and run a 1/2 chance of dying from it at 60, then you should absolutely not smoke.



Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). Cigarette smoking increases the risk of Crohn's disease as well as the severity of the course of the disease.[77] It is also the number one cause of bladder cancer.
The World Health Organization estimate that tobacco caused 5.4 million deaths in 2004[78] and 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century.[79] Similarly, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco use as "the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide."[80]
Rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in the developed world. Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006 falling from 42% to 20.8% in adults.[81] In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year.[82]
Passive smoking presents a very real health risk. 603 000 deaths were attributable to second-hand smoke in 2004.[83]




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