Key insights

• 🚬 Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide due to cigarette smoke exposure.
• 🧠 Nicotine desensitizes the brain, leading to increased cravings and health risks.
• 💔 Smoking is linked to a range of deadly diseases and damage to the cardiovascular system.
• ⚠️ Smoking increases the risk of heart attack, blood clots, peripheral vascular disease, and lung damage.
• 🌬️ Cigarette smoke damages cilia, leading to mucus buildup, chronic bronchitis, and difficulty breathing.
• ☠️ Cigarette smoke contains carcinogens that can damage healthy cells and lead to cancer.
• 🤰 Smoking negatively impacts pregnancy, breastfeeding, and leads to various other health issues.
• ⚕️ Over a million new cases of smoking-related cancer are diagnosed annually.

Q&A

• How does smoking affect pregnancy and breastfeeding?

  Pregnant women who smoke expose their babies to poisonous chemicals, increasing the risk of various health complications. Breastfeeding mothers who smoke can transmit nicotine to their babies, causing several negative effects, harming their health.

• What are the specific ways nicotine affects the body?

  Nicotine, an addictive substance in tobacco, desensitizes the brain, leading to increased cravings. It also damages arteries, causing atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Moreover, nicotine exposure can lead to infertility and negatively impact pregnancy and breastfeeding.

• How does cigarette smoke affect the body?

  Cigarette smoke damages the cardiovascular system, leading to narrowed arteries, reduced oxygen supply, higher risk of heart attack, blood clots, and peripheral vascular disease. It also damages the respiratory system, causing chronic bronchitis, difficulty breathing, and increasing the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cancer.

• What are the health risks associated with smoking?

  Smoking is linked to a range of deadly diseases and health problems, including heart attacks, blood clots, peripheral vascular disease, lung damage, chronic bronchitis, and an increased risk of cancer. It can also lead to infertility, impact pregnancy and breastfeeding, and cause low bone density, gum disease, immune system dysfunction, and sexual impotence.

• 00:00 Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Cigarette smoke contains toxic gases and over 40 cancer-causing chemicals. Nicotine is addictive and flows to the brain when inhaling tobacco smoke.
• 01:26 Repeated nicotine exposure desensitizes the brain, leading to cravings and health risks; smoking causes a range of deadly diseases and damage to the cardiovascular system.
• 03:06 Smoking increases the risk of heart attack, blood clots, peripheral vascular disease, and lung damage.
• 04:28 Cigarette smoke damages cilia, leading to mucus buildup, chronic bronchitis, and difficulty breathing.
• 05:44 Cigarette smoke contains harmful substances that can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and damage healthy cells, increasing the risk of cancer.
• 07:12 Smoking has numerous harmful effects ranging from cancer to infertility and can negatively impact pregnancy and breastfeeding. It also leads to other health issues such as low bone density, gum disease, immune system dysfunction, and sexual impotence.