Sweeney’s Blog Loan, Mortgage And Medical Information

Myths about smoking examined

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. Several studies have shown that smoking is responsible from various forms of cancer (as we saw yesterday), to other diseases, and things as simple as dry skin, wrinkles, dry hair, etc..
But that do not mind the smokers who, despite knowing all the facts, still, not just addiction, but because they do not want to quit. They do not realize that the addiction is spoken and not themselves. Directly and do not believe many of the drawbacks of smoking, so let's see some myths about smoking, what is truth and what is legend.

Many smokers say that his grandfather smoked all their lives and not die of lung cancer. It is true, only 10% of lifelong smokers get lung cancer. And the percentage is slightly contracted throat cancer, tongue, mouth, and others associated with smoking. So it's easier for them to break a condom is sick with cancer, for smokers.

But the issue is not there, but the simple fact that most smokers can escape the cancer does not mean that it remains less guilty about all these deaths that have been generated. The snuff or smoke is responsible for 30% of deaths from any type of cancer, and 87% of those who died of lung cancer were smokers. The risk of dying from lung cancer goes up 23 times if it is a smoker.

England in a study that lasted 50 years, and it showed that half of smokers die because of smoking, and snuff the deaths of those, half did so before the 50 years of age.
Without that one of the biggest risks of smoking, not lung cancer but cardiovascular disease, for which one can die of a heart attack or a cerebral hemorrhage.

As you can see depends on how you can show the statistics seem more or less harmful, but in the end is the same: Smoking is responsible for millions of deaths each year around the world. Yes, many people smoke and do not die from it ... but it is like playing Russian roulette, to see if one dies, or if you can keep smoking.