| Even though everyone knows that smoking is harmful | | | | typically and is characterized by the tissue of the |
| for many reasons, it's important to refresh people's | | | | throat deteriorating. It's not a pleasant disease to get |
| memories about the dangers of smoking. There are | | | | and is primarily caused by smoking cigarettes. |
| some strides being made with getting young people to | | | | 3) Heart disease: One of the dangers of smoking is |
| understand that smoking is not a glamorous thing or a | | | | that it can lead to heart disease. Someone with heart |
| cool thing and instead interpreting smoking as a | | | | disease is susceptible to having a heart attack. Eating |
| disgusting and harmful thing. Kids are becoming more | | | | poorly can also influence this health issue, meaning that |
| health-conscious, and that is being translated into their | | | | someone that smokes and eats a lot of cholesterol is |
| actions. Fewer kids are smoking cigarettes than ten | | | | at especially high risk of developing heart disease. |
| years ago, but there are still a lot who are. That's why | | | | 4) Bad breath: Although bad breath is not as bad as, |
| it's helpful to remind people, especially young people, | | | | say, lung cancer, it is still a consequence of smoking. It |
| that there are very real dangers of smoking cigarettes. | | | | can lead to people avoiding talking to you closely or |
| Here are the top five dangers of smoking cigarettes. | | | | even failed first dates if your breath smells like |
| 1) Lung cancer: Lung cancer is perhaps the worst | | | | cigarettes when you lean in for a kiss at the end of |
| health consequence of smoking cigarettes. If someone | | | | the night. Bad breath is not a pleasant trait to have, and |
| gets smoking-related lung cancer, they are in for a | | | | it can really stigmatize a person if they become known |
| very difficult road, and an expensive one, where they | | | | as having bad breath. |
| might not reach the other side of that road. If lung | | | | 5) Lower lung capacity: People who smoke, even if |
| cancer is developed, there are medical procedures | | | | they exercise regularly, have a lower lung capacity |
| and drugs that can help, but if a person has smoked | | | | than someone who doesn't smoke. That's because |
| long enough to develop lung cancer, they are going to | | | | the tar from the burning cigarette coats the lungs |
| have a difficult time getting over that illness. | | | | when it is inhaled. Walking up a staircase can prove a |
| 3) Emphysema: This disease originates in the throat | | | | difficult task for a smoker. |