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Smoking Is Injurious To Health

The document discusses the history and types of smoking as well as the health effects. It defines smoking and traces its origins and spread. It describes two types of smoking - passive and regular. It then outlines many negative health effects of smoking such as cancer, heart disease, and addiction due to nicotine.

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Smoking Is Injurious To Health

The document discusses the history and types of smoking as well as the health effects. It defines smoking and traces its origins and spread. It describes two types of smoking - passive and regular. It then outlines many negative health effects of smoking such as cancer, heart disease, and addiction due to nicotine.

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Smoking

Definition:
The action or habit of inhaling and
exhaling the smoke of tobacco or a
drug.
Where smoking comes from:
In the 17th century, goods began flowing
into Europe from India, Asia and
the Americas, bringing
in spices, tobacco, coffee.
Smoking is a practice in which a
substance, most commonly tobacco, is
burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled
combustion releases the active
substances in drugs such as nicotine and
makes them available for absorption
through the lungs.

History
The history of smoking can be dated to as
early as 5000 BC, in many different cultures
across the world.
A Frenchman named Jean Nicot (from
whose name the word nicotine is derived)
introduced tobacco to France in 1560. From
France tobacco spread to England. The first
report of a smoking Englishman is of a
sailor in Bristol in 1556, seen "emitting
smoke from his nostrils"
Tobacco was introduced around 1600 by
French merchants in what today is modernday Gambia and Senegal

Cannabis smoking was common in the


Middle East before the arrival of tobacco( It is
used to produce hemp fibre and as a psychotropic drug.)

Today in Pakistan many small children who do


not have parents or their parents have died
these children collect rubbish and eat bad
things like cocaine, smoking . Have you ever
saw a child smoking .

The most tobacco smoking takes


place in china, Afghanistan, Russia etc

Types of smoking
There are two types of smoking.
Passive smoking and regular smoking.
Passive smoking is when a person
smokes and you can inhale it by passing
by them.
Eeeeeeeeessda

you can inhale it


by passing by them. Regular
smoking is when you inhale
directly
There are two types of
smoking. Passive smoking
and regular smoking.
Passive smoking is when a
person smokes and you can
inhale it by passing by the.
Smokes and

Regular smoking is when


you inhale directly

Effects of smoking
The health effects of smoking are the
circumstances, mechanisms, and
factors of tobacco consumption on
human health
Tobacco is the single greatest cause of
preventable death globally
Tobacco use leads most commonly to
diseases affecting the heart, liver and
lungs,

The World Health Organization (WHO)


estimates that tobacco caused 5.4
million deaths in 2004[6] and 100 million
deaths over the course of the 20th
century.[7]

Tobacco also contains nicotine, which is


a highly addictive psychoactive drug.
When tobacco is smoked, nicotine
causes physical and psychological
dependency

The primary risks of tobacco usage include


many forms of cancer, particularly lung
cancer,[46] kidney cancer,[47] cancer of the
larynxand head and neck, breast cancer,[48]
[49]
bladder cancer,[50]

The risk of dying from lung cancer


before age 85 is 22.1% for a male
smoker and 11.9% for a female smoker,
in the absence of competing causes of
death
Inhalation of tobacco smoke causes
several immediate responses within the
heart and blood vessels

Carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke


exerts its negative effects by reducing
the bloods ability to carry oxygen. Both
of these conditions can become
permanent with prolonged use of
cigarettes.[58]

Nicotine
Nicotine, which is contained in cigarettes and
other smoked tobacco products is
astimulant and is one of the main factors
leading to continued tobacco smoking.
Nicotine is a highly addictive psychoactive
chemical. When tobacco is smoked, most of the
nicotine is pyrolyzed; a dose sufficient to cause
mild somatic dependency and mild to strong
psychological dependency remains.

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