Smoking causes disease

A good reason to quit

Smoking harms almost every organ in your body but because it happens gradually, you probably don’t notice. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering.

Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.

Lung cancer is caused by chemicals in tar. Most lung cancers are caused
by smoking. Smoking damages a gene called p53, and stops it from protecting your cells, allowing lung cancer to develop.

Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers. One in three deaths from heart disease in people under 65 are caused by smoking.

Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) occurs when blood vessels in your legs or arms become blocked. It causes pain and some smokers end up having their limbs amputated.

Tobacco smoke can lead to disabilities such as blindness, hip fractures and painful stomach ulcers.

These are just a few of the harmful effects of smoking.