Effect Of Smoking

How can smoking effect the respiratory system and what illnesses can smoking cause?

Smoking affects the respiratory system because it stops the small little hairs in your throat from working as well these small little hairs are called Cilia and are used to push dirt and mucus out of your throat so it can be breathed out or swallowed when reaches top of throat. The tar also sticks to the lining of your throat and lungs (this is the stuff which makes fingers yellow etc.).Smoking is also known to make alveoli in the lungs a more round shape than small cauliflower shape. This decreases the surface area and results in less oxygen filling lungs again leaving you of breath. It also affects your respiratory system and circulatory system because it contains a lot of carbon monoxide which sticks to the haemoglobin in the blood instead of oxygen this means that many organs don't get enough oxygen as they should do so it increases blood pressure so any small amount of oxygen can reach organs anyway. This also means that less oxygen is swapped over in the gas exchange at the lungs which can often leave those who smoke out of breath quickly. Mucus which would also be removed through cilia goes in to blood stream and is deposited in arteries making them very fatty also increasing heart rate. All in all it also increases chances of lung diseases, strokes and heart failure etc.

2009-06-23 09:56:52 by Hannah Montanaaa LOOOL

Another simple animation this time of the dangers and the effects to the respiratory system by smoking

I've recently (about a month) quit smoking, and my PA suggested I see a heart specialist because my numbers didn't look right, so I did, and he says she must have got a bad reading, so do you think quitting smoking may have had an effect on the reading?

Your answer doesn't give details about what kind of tests you had done, but I can tell you that one of the biggest risks of smoking is atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Atherosclerosis, in turn, causes a plethora of health problems in almost all body systems (ie. diabetes, heart attack, renal failure, stroke, etc etc!)

As I said before, I don't know what type of tests your doctors performed, so I'll bet that atherosclerosis is one of your problems, but I can't give much more speculation than that.

Congratulations on quitting smoking, as this will dramatically improve your health (the longer you go without smoking, the greater your benefits will be).

2009-02-06 21:53:50 by topsy

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My boyfriend smokes pot on a daily bases. He is a hard worker and all and smokes pot after a long day at work. I've noticed that he is very moody. And doesn't seem to want to have sex that often. it's at the beginning of our relationship so I would think that this is when we would be having the most sex. Does smoking pot effect the sex drive?

Pot makes sex better. Your boyfriend must be gay.

2009-04-29 17:00:02 by girly girl

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I had big breathing problems today and I thought I was going to die. I went to see doctor and I was diagnosed upper respiratory infection and should muscle infection. He told me what avoid to eat and so... explained pretty well what caused it. But I forgot to ask the doctor one thing...



Will smoking worsen upper respiratory infection? How will smoking effect upper respiratory infection?

Note:I went to see a western chinese doctor and he explained in chinese... so I might wrong translating that shoulder muscle infection, that's direct translate.

This is strange question. The smoke will irritate the bronchial tissues, making you feel worse.

2008-04-29 02:50:13 by fatenekki

I,ve never heard or seen any1 on tv mention the effect of smoking on the environment. If car exhaust pipes and refineries have an effect, cigarettes most likely should. If cigarettes really do have an effect on the environment, why isn't it among the most popular causes of global warming?

Indirectly. If butts are thrown down, they become litter. If they are thrown away, they end up in landfills. If people didnt smoke, then there would be no need for farmers to grow tobacco. Carbon is put into the air when farmers drive their tractors to prepare the fields, harvest the tobacco, etc. Gas is consumed by the trucks that haul the tobacco to the processing plants, and later to the store. Trees are cut down to make the wrappers, and the boxes. Some pollution is given off when the paper is bleached. Etc. But from the little bit of smoke that comes out when you smoke one? Not a chance.

2008-02-22 06:31:59 by Rocksolidbezalel