| | | | | Alert.” |
| How deadly is a cigarette? Before you light up, read | | | | In addition to this, smoking causes other cancers as |
| the list below. They're the diseases that come from | | | | well. These include cancers of the mouth, larynx, the |
| smoking. | | | | kidney, bladder, and cervix. The latter is apparently |
| Whether or not you contract these ailments depends | | | | caused by carcinogens which concentrate in the |
| on several factors: the number of cigarettes you | | | | cervix and later trigger the development of cancer. |
| smoke, the tar and nicotine content of the cigarettes, | | | | "Cancer of the cervix is strongly associated with |
| and the depth of inhalation. | | | | cigarette smoking, especially if the habit was taken up |
| But one thing's for sure. Smoking is bad for your health | | | | in the early teens or sooner. The cause is apparently |
| no matter how you look at it. If you're a smoker, it's | | | | the smoke carcinogens carried to the uterine epithelium |
| best to quit now before it's too late. | | | | by the circulation. Many young and middle-aged |
| Lung cancer - Many deaths from lung cancer are | | | | women die or are rendered sterile by surgery,” |
| caused by smoking. This is not surprising since tobacco | | | | according to Kurt Butler of the Quackery Action |
| smoke is loaded with carcinogens that damage the | | | | Council of Hawaii and Dr. Lynn Rayner of the John A. |
| lungs of smokers. | | | | Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii in |
| Still, aggressive advertising and marketing efforts of | | | | “The Best Medicine.” |
| the tobacco industry have increased the number of | | | | “The total of tobacco-related deaths due to |
| smokers, especially women, in recent years. This has | | | | cervical and lung cancers in women exceeds he total |
| greatly contributed to a fivefold jump in the rate of lung | | | | of tobacco-related deaths due to lung cancer in men," |
| cancer among women. | | | | they added. |
| "Lung cancer is the most preventable cancer killer of | | | | Emphysema - is another lung disease that comes |
| women. By the mid-1980s, 30 years after an explosion | | | | from smoking. In this condition, the tiny air passages |
| in the number of women smokers in this country, lung | | | | (alveoli) of the lungs lose their normal elasticity and are |
| cancer was killing more American women than breast | | | | injured or destroyed. The tar in cigarettes is |
| cancer. In 1987 the disease killed 44,000 American | | | | responsible for this. This gives the smoker shortness |
| women. Almost two-thirds of all female lung cancer | | | | of breath, a persistent cough, and a rounded or "barrel" |
| deaths occur among women who currently smoke | | | | chest. |
| one pack or more daily, or who have quit within the | | | | "The alveoli eventually disintegrate into nonfunctioning |
| last five years. Nine out of 10 lung cancer deaths occur | | | | scar tissue worthless for breathing. The damage is |
| in women with some history of regular cigarette use," | | | | irreversible. Smoking is by far the most important single |
| revealed Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe and the Public Citizen | | | | cause of emphysema," Butler and Rayner said. (Next: |
| Health Research Group in “Women's Health | | | | Smoking and impotence. |