Smokers should devote some time to think about how smoking is affecting their body and ultimately life, as smoking encompasses numerous ill-effects. It is essential for smokers to realize that how smoking is bad for health and accordingly take proper or correct steps to quit smoking and start living. If one smokes, he owes himself to find out the ill-effects or dangerous effects of smoking in his life.Cigarette smoking is harmful as a single cigarette contains over 4000 chemicals, out of which few are carcinogenic.Cigarette contains nicotine which is a deadly poison.

It also contains hydrogen cyanide: the poison used in gas chambers, carbon monoxide: part of car exhaust, ammonia: found in floor cleaners, methane: a component of rocket fuel, arsenic: used in rat poison etc…Each time one inhales smoke from a cigarette, little quantities of these poisonous chemicals get inside the blood through lungs and travel to all parts of the body and destroy it. Smoking lowers the immunity power or resistance, increases wrinkles, stains teeth, increases bad breath, and develops an ashy complexion. The serious ill-effects of smoking are: - various forms of cancer such as – oral, pancreas, stomach, and lung; emphysema, coronary heart diseases, and chronic bronchitis.

Smoking cigars are associated with a higher risk for nearly all major lung disease. Research suggests that the damaging effects of tobacco smoke on the heart are multifold. It increases the risk for blood clot and thus smokers are more susceptible to heart attack and heart stroke. Cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing dementia and neurologic diseases. It is also linked to numerous reproductive problems. Smoking causes several negative effects on joints and bones such as it impairs the formation of new bones and smokers are vulnerable to osteoporosis. Smokers tend to develop injuries in the spine and degenerative disorders.

The diseases caused by smoking cigarettes are many and kills many people worldwide every year. Knowing the ill-effects of smoking, one must give a try to quit it.