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Smoking and Health Risks
Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causes many diseases, and reduces the health of smokers in general.
Quitting smoking lowers your risk for smoking-related diseases and can add years to your life.
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and affects a person’s overall health.
People who smoke less than a pack of cigarettes a day have about a 44% increased risk of developing diabetes compared to nonsmokers, according to a 2007 Swiss study published in the JAMA.
More than 95% of smokers had insufficient blood levels of vitamin D in the winter (when little is absorbed from sunlight), according to a 2011 study published in the European Respiratory Journal.
Among smokers, this deficiency can lead to reduced lung function and faster decline in lung health, according to an October 2012 study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Possible harmful consequences of smoking including augmented oxidative stress as indicated by low serum uric acid levels and high liver transaminases concentrations, hyperglycaemia and high haemoglobin concentrations.
The calcium screen test is very important for all smokers. Evidence shows that smoking has a very negative effect on the overall bone health of a person. It also leads to faster bone loss (especially postmenopausal women, who are already at risk for osteoporosis). Smoking has also been shown to have a negative impact on bone healing after fracture.
Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causes many diseases, and reduces the health of smokers in general.
Similarly those who live around smokers, either family members or work-place colleagues or friends, are also exposed to harmful effects of Passive Smoking.
So in either case whether you are an Active Smoker or a Passive Smoker, you need to get Smoker's Health Risk Detection Profile done to know well in advance if smoking is damaging your health.
This profile helps you to take necessary steps to avoid further damage.
Smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.
Smokers are at greater risk for diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease).
Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body:
Smoking also increases the risk of dying from cancer and other diseases in cancer patients and survivors.
If nobody smoked, one of every three cancer deaths in the United States would not happen.
This Smoker's Health Risk Detection Profile is specifically designed to detect the risk factors that are related to smoking, whether active or passive, such as:
If you are a smoker, or if any person close to you, either in your family, workplace or friends is a smoker you need to get Smoker's Health Risk Detection Profile done at least once in a year to detect if active smoking or passive smoking is causing any health problems.