Smokers start for the pleasure of it.  Unfortunately, there are many ways that smoking is hazardous to your health.”

According to Answers.com

Smoking causes the following 11 diseases:

• Smoking causes lung cancer.
• Smoking causes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
• Smoking causes heart disease.
• Smoking causes premature aging of the skin.
• Smoking causes erectile dysfunction.
• Smoking exacerbates asthma.
• Smoking causes bladder cancer.
• Smoking exacerbates peripheral arterial disease.
• Smoking causes Buerger’s Syndrome (loss of limbs due to poor circulation).
• Smoking exacerbates migraine headaches
• Smoking yellows the teeth

Smoking causes emphysema, lung cancer, hardening of the arteries, esophageal cancer and Smoking is known to cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), esophageal varices (rupture of veins in the throat), among other diseases.  Smoking could cause your premature death and leave all your loved ones behind. People say that smoking could also cause bad breath  like we said before DEATH!

Smokers lose their teeth
According to a recent study, 40% of smokers will lose all of their teeth by the end of their lives.  That’s because smoking by itself breaks down your gums and your jawbone.  If you’re a smoker, that isn’t much to look forward to.

Not all smokers develop any or all of these diseases, but the chances of a chronic smoker dying of one or more of them are better than 50%.

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