Even children know that smoking is harmful to health, but many people still disagree. For example, the male elders of rong’er’s family are almost all old smokers. They often smoke cigarettes before they have eaten their meals, and they are one by one. It’s really worrying that they don’t listen to their family’s advice.
How harmful is smoking to the lungs?
A group of moving pictures allows you to see the terrible appearance of “smoke lungs” under the endoscope.
(lungs of 15-year-old smokers)
(lungs of 30-year-old smokers)
(lung comparison between nonsmokers and people of different smoking ages)
We can clearly see that the longer you smoke, the darker your lungs become. For smokers, smoking can be said to be harmful without any benefit, but it is not only a problem of blackening the lungs, it can even bring fatal damage to your body——
1. All kinds of cancer
Cancers include lung cancer, esophageal cancer, oral cancer, gastric cancer, rectal cancer, blood cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, heart disease, etc. The list is a bit small and long. It looks frightening, but the fact is also frightening. 30% of cancers are attributed to smoking, of which smoking is the most important pathogenic factor for lung cancer.
When tobacco is burned, it will release carcinogens. There are more than 250 toxic substances or carcinogens in the smoke. The main ones closely related to lung cancer are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, arsenic, propylene, nicotine (nicotine), carbon monoxide and smoke tar. These carcinogens can lead to DNA damage of bronchial epithelial cells, activation of some oncogenes, mutation and inactivation of tumor suppressor genes through different mechanisms, and ultimately lead to carcinogenesis.
The above figures have explained the damage of tobacco to the lung, which is cumulative and delayed, so even if smokers have lung cancer, the early symptoms are not obvious, resulting in 80% of patients being in the middle and late stages when diagnosed. The clinical treatment effect of advanced lung cancer is very poor, the mortality rate is very high, and the overall 5-year survival rate is less than 10%. What is more frightening is that as the country with the highest incidence rate of lung cancer, both smoking and lung cancer incidence are becoming younger. In the next few decades, the incidence rate and mortality rate of lung cancer in China will continue to rise rapidly.
As for other cancers, smoking may not be the main cause of disease, but it is undeniable that smoking is definitely an accomplice. The toxicity of smoke to the human body is not limited to the lungs, but also the blood, bladder, and many other organs of the body. Especially for women, smoking brings more harm. In addition to the above diseases, they may also be infected with special diseases and affect their reproductive function.
2. Decline in quality of life
Physical pain and death are still out of reach for most people, and many people will not think about it for so long, so no matter how harmful it is, we just listen. Some people even think that I don’t want to live to be 100 years old, as long as I live to be 60 years old. If 10 years of life can be exchanged for the happiness of smoking when you are young, why not? I just want to say that this idea of living in the present and seeing through life and death is really brave and admirable. But rong’er also wants to tell you that you are too idealistic.
Many smokers are less than 60 years old. In the 40-45 years old, chronic diseases such as pharyngitis, rhinitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary heart disease, and late heart failure come to them. Take non-smoking peers for comparison. Others eat, drink and play every day, and play everywhere without pressure. But you are asthmatic when you move. Every day, you feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, breathing difficulties, mental depression, dizziness, sexual ability reduction, cough in the middle of the night, and you have to survive every winter. In short, your health will get worse and worse. No matter how rich and powerful you are, your quality of life will be halved. Besides, at this time, you are in your prime of life, and you have to earn money to support your family. The responsibility of supporting your parents also lies with you. And this irreversible damage to the body can not be compensated by exercise. Only quitting smoking may save your quality of life in time for the rest of your life.
3. Damage to family health
Smoking hurts not only your own health, but also other nonsmokers. If passer-by A is far away, just say your wife and children. If there is a heavy smoker in a family, in addition to the increased probability of lung cancer, his family can hardly escape the trouble of lung cancer. In fact, for adults, second-hand smoke can also cause cardiovascular and lung damage. As early as 1984, a large follow-up study in Japan found that the mortality rate of lung cancer among women married to smoking spouses almost doubled compared with those married to non-smoking spouses. News that all three members of a family have lung cancer is not uncommon.
For children, smoking will lead to fetal growth restriction, including increasing premature death, sudden infant death, infant deformity and other problems. In addition, second-hand smoke can also affect children’s cognition, behavior and physical development, such as causing children to get some respiratory diseases, bronchial asthma, pulmonary function decline, acute otitis media, recurrent otitis media, etc. It should be said that whether it is smoking or second-hand smoking, the harm to children is very serious.
Therefore, quitting smoking is imperative. This is the importance of one’s own body and respect for the health of others. Rong’er, as an anti smoking faction, is easy to negotiate other requirements for male tickets, but she will never compromise on not smoking, because it is too painful to be forced to smoke. I also hope that all smokers who read this article can quit smoking as soon as possible and give their families a clean living environment!
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