Health Issues | Around the Body
...There are over 2000 amputations a year in the UK due to smoking...
Head
- Dull, foul smelling hair
- Hair loss
- Hearing Loss
- Glue Ear
- Eye Irritation
- Cataracts
- Blindness
- Loss of smell
Brain
- Reduced supply of oxygen to the brain
- Increased risk of stroke
- Headache
- Nicotine Hangover
- Mood changes
- Panic attacks
Lungs
- Bronchitis
- Emphysema
- Pneumonia
- Coughs & Colds
- Wheezing
- Shortness of breath
- Asthma
- Tar deposits
- Pleurisy
- Cancer
Mouth & Throat
- Gum disease
- Tooth loss
- Tobacco stained teeth
- Foul smelling breath
- Loss of taste
- Plaque
- Sore throat
- Cancer of the lips, tongue, larynx or oesophagus
Heart
- Heart Attack
- Narrowed arteries
- Aortic aneurysm
- Thickened blood
Circulation
- Narrowed and hardened arteries leading to arteriosclerosis & Gangrene
- Cold hands and feet
- Decreased fitness
- Peripheral vascular disease
Skin
- Slow healing wounds
- Premature aging & wrinkling due to reduced oxygen supply to the skin
- Cellulite
- Tobacco stained fingers
Stomach
- Ulcers
- Cancers of the stomach, kidneys, pancreas, bladder
Reproductive System & fertility
- Impotence
- Deformed sperm count & mobility
- Testicular cancer
- reduced fertility
- Miscarriage
- Low birth weight
- Cancer of the cervix
- Cot death
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