Smoking Health Risks And Premature Aging

Nothing ages a person more than when they smoke, not to mention all the smoking health risks involved.

A smoker not only looks older, has more lines and worse looking skin but smoking health risks can have disastrous and catastrophic results on the body.

It is not even ‘cool’ to do it anymore (Sorry Bogart).

For men, the main problem with smoking is that it increases your chance of becoming impotent. Smoking damages the blood vessels that supplies blood to the penis – but that is not all, it also increases your chance of being sterile. Smoker’s sperm are less active and weak which makes fertilizing an egg more difficult.

For women, it ages you much earlier by bringing menopause sooner and by also increasing the chances of osteoporosis after menopause. Small blood vessel damage means an older looking face with more wrinkles and more sallow skin (Think of all that squinting and pursing of the lips). For women during child bearing age, smoking will increase the chances of miscarriages, premature babies and still birth.

So let’s look at some facts and statistics:

• There are around 4,000 chemicals inhaled each time you smoke, including the deadly toxin nicotine.

• At least 43 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer in humans.

• Approx. 17% of deaths in the US are cigarette related.

• Smoking causes roughly 33% of all cancer deaths.

• Approx. 25% of smokers die from fatal heart attacks.

• Smoking is responsible for at least 85% of death from lung cancer.

• In the UK, 14 people die an hour from smoking related diseases.

• Other health problems include angina, cataracts, high blood pressure, impotence, emphysema and many more.

• Smokers on average lose 16 years of life.

• More than 50% of smokers say they smoke because they are addicted, not because they want to.

Smoking damages your bodies’ ability to absorb certain vitamins and minerals. Anti oxidant vitamins such as vitamin C is severely depleted whilst the DNA of a smoker’s body gets further damage from oxidization. This will result in the acceleration of the aging process (assuming you will reach an ‘old age’!).

Smoking is a hard habit to kick as nicotine is very addictive. Whatever action you choose to take, take it now and stick with it. Anti-aging is not about magic pills or secret potions, it is about being in tip top health and leading a healthy lifestyle. Smoking leads the pack in premature aging and in shortening your life span.

Take action to stop today.

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