SMOKING CAUSES PROBLEMS OTHER THAN LUNG CANCER AND HEART DISEASE. The fact that smoking causes lung disease and oral cancer isn’t exactly news, and only tobacco industry executives would express(feigned) shock at being told.
But cigarettes can lead to a whole slew of problems involving every system of your tar-filled body, and most people aren’l aware of this. The American Council on Science and Health’s book Cigarettes: What the Warning Label
Doesn’t Tell You is the first comprehensive look at the medical evidence of all types of harm triggered by smoking. Referencing over 450 articles from medical journals and reviewed by 45 experts — mainly medical doctors and PhDs — if this book doesn’t convince you to quit, nothing will.
Among some of the things that cancer sticks do:?Besides cancers of the head, neck, and lungs, ciggies are especially connected to cancers of the bladder, kidney, pancreas, and cervix. Newer evidence is adding leukemia and colorectal cancer to the list. Recent studies have also found at least a doubling of risk among smokers for cancers of the vulva, as well as an eight-fold risk of anal cancer for men and a nine-fold risk for women.
Smoking trashes the ability of blood to flow, which results in a sixteen-fold greater risk of peripheral vascular disease. This triggers pain in the legs and arms, which often leads to an inability to walk and, in some instances, gangrene and/or amputation. Seventy-six percent of all cases are caused by smoking, more than for any other factor, including diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure.