Citing the reports, approximately 90% of lung cancer cases are linked with cigarette smoking. Dr. Satya Ranjan Sahu, a renowned pulmonologist practicing in South Delhi says, “Smoking cigarettes directly impacts the lungs of humans along with their key functioning. The changes that are thus created are both reversible and irreversible, depending on the situation that might easily turn fatal for individuals as well.”

Cigarette: They Are Rich in Carcinogens

You might feel classy or sassy while flaming and smoking a cigarette. But a single puff of it is responsible for releasing more than 700 chemicals out of which 70+ are known to be considered as carcinogens.

The notorious ones include:

• Tar
• Ammonia
• Methanol
• Benzene
• Cyanide
• Formaldehyde

In fact, if you’re not familiar, cigarette smoke also emits dangerous gases like nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide that’s surely not at all beneficial for your health, especially the lungs. The smoke reaches the lungs passing through the windpipe, causing a feeling of irritation once being in contact with the lung’s tissue. The prolonged exposure of them can lead to cancerous changes, leading to lung cancer.

Smoking Leads to Chest Infections

Just imagine the smoke of a cigarette passing through your respiratory tract and destructing everything coming in its way. Ironically, this is a harsh reality that occurs every single time a smoker burns a cigarette. Being a slow process, the harm takes time to turn visible which then can turn fatal for your lungs.

The cilia in the airways get wrapped up with the tar emitted from the smoke, irritating the tissue around it. This leads to excessive mucus production, causing chest congestion. That’s why smokers are likely to have persistent chest infections along with having the ‘smoker’s cough’.

Smoking Is Dangerous for People Around You as Well

Smoking is not just hazardous for your health, but for people around you as well. Passive smoking is also harmful like the active one, increasing the inhalers’ tendencies to allergies, asthmas, and underdevelopment of lungs.

As per reports, events of childhood cancers have also been reported in kids due to passive smoking.

Smoking Leads to COPD

Citing the words of WHO, smoking is the primary cause of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The smokes are responsible for surging the chances of both chronic bronchitis and emphysema, leading to failure in lung functioning.

If you are 40+ in age and also a smoker, there’s a high chance for you to develop COPD as compared to other people.