Smoking-Related Diseases: Smoking is harmful for health, but still many people can be seen smoking beedis and cigarettes with passion. Many people consider smoking as a hobby, but according to health experts, this hobby can take a toll on your health. Bidi-cigarette smoke is a slow poison for our body, which gradually hollows out all the organs. Beedi and cigarette smoke contain hundreds of harmful chemicals like nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar, which can cause lung disease, heart disease and cancer. Before smoking, you should know how dangerous this habit is for our body and what serious diseases it can cause.

Dr. Bhagwan Mantri, former pulmonologist of Moolchand Hospital, New Delhi, told News18 That smoking has the biggest impact on the lungs. When a person smokes a beedi or cigarette, the hot smoke reaches the lungs’ tubes directly, causing them to burn. Smoking for a long time increases the risk of lung cancer manifold. Apart from this, diseases like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and emphysema permanently destroy the lung function, due to which the person has difficulty in breathing.

The doctor told that smoking also has a direct effect on our heart and blood circulation. Nicotine present in tobacco suddenly increases blood pressure and carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood. Due to this, the heart has to work harder to deliver blood to the body parts. Due to continuous smoking, plaque starts accumulating in the arteries, which obstructs blood flow. This is why the risk of heart attack and coronary artery disease is much higher in smokers than in non-smokers. The lethal effect of beedi-cigarette smoke is not limited to the chest only, but it also reaches the brain. Nicotine can cause the blood vessels of the brain to become weak or narrow, which increases the risk of brain stroke. Due to stroke, any part of the body can become paralyzed or even death can occur.

According to experts, smoking can also cause mental problems like loss of memory, lack of concentration and anxiety, because it disturbs the neurochemical balance of the brain. Most people think that smoking only harms the lungs, but it is equally dangerous for the digestive system. Toxic elements inhaled with smoke can cause cancer of the stomach, pancreas and kidney. It increases the amount of acid in the stomach, which causes peptic ulcer and severe acidity. It reduces the body’s sensitivity towards insulin, due to which the risk of developing type-2 diabetes also increases significantly.

The habit of smoking has a very bad effect on the fertility of both men and women. Bidi-cigarette smoke reduces sperm count and quality in men, while it can cause complications in conceiving pregnancy in women. Smoking during pregnancy can be fatal for the unborn baby, causing problems like premature birth or low birth weight baby. Apart from this, it weakens the bones and causes untimely wrinkles on the skin, due to which the person starts looking much older than his age. A person who smokes not only makes himself sick but also puts the people around him at risk. This is called passive smoking.