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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
By Peter Finch
 Even if you are a chain smoker, who cannot live for fifteen minutes together without smoking a cigarette, you will be knowing full well how this habit of yours is wreaking havoc with your health.
There is enough literature present everywhere and you would have to be living on another planet to miss it, and indeed a statutory warning of smoking being injurious to health is plastered on the very cigarette packet you use.
But just to start the record, let me reiterate what all diseases your smoking habit may cause. The smoke you take in directly enters the respiratory system, so that is where your health depreciation will begin. Emphysema, bronchitis and a general difficulty in breathing are the most common ones. If you have asthma, then your smoking habit could greatly aggravate it.
If you have diabetes, the nicotine in the cigarette can make your blood sugar levels go up, and you know very well what kind of complications diabetes mellitus can cause on its own. And, of course, we should not forget the cancers. Smoking increases the risk |
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