Health risk of smoking

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There's no way around it; smoking is bad for your health. It harms nearly every organ of the body, some that you would not expect. Cigarette smoking causes nearly one in five deaths in the world. It can also cause many other cancers and health problems. These include:

  • lung deaseas , such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
  • Damage to and thickening of blood vessels, which causes high blood pressure
  • Blood clots and stroke
  • Vision problem, such as cataract and macular degeneration (AMD)
 
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