Smoking has increased within two centuries on a large scale. And with the increase in smoking, the ratio of diseases also increases. People living in the modern world for styles and for symbol of fashion use cigarettes.

The fact is not only the fashion but there are some other reasons. People do smoking because in this fast era when the time is too short to pass out, people are more depressed, tense and in trouble. So to overcome their mental and physical problem for relaxation they try to smoke a cigarette.

But they are not aware of the fact that in this era of progress and developments, the diseases are still fatal. They are not curable. Only in unites states eighty seven percent of the lung cancer is caused by smoking. When a person starts to smoke in his life, he has one out of ten chances to get lungs cancer. And if he proceeds to smoke the risk gets high to six percent out of the ten percent.

But another true fact is that a non smoker person living or working with the smoker has twenty to thirty percent chances of getting lungs cancer. The smoker is not only killing his self but he is killing the people around him. The emphysema and the chronic are the initial diseases of the lungs before it moves to further stages of lung cancer. The elements behind these diseases are carbon, cyanide, carbon monoxide that is the cause of smoke releasing from the tobacco.

Some other major diseases that can be caused by smoking and especially for the chain smokers are heart attack, peripheral vascular, atherosclerosis and strokes. The true fact is that the smokers have chances of just five percent heart attack but the risk in passive smokers is from twenty to thirty percent. So people who smoke are putting in danger the life of the people around them.

The above mentioned diseases are not the end but there are more to offer when we talk about the smokers diseases.  Allergies, tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, asthma, invasive pneumococcal, voice and throat cancer, mouth ulcer and mouth cancer, esophageal cancer, bad breath, pancreatic cancer etc. are all the diseases that could attack your body one or all at the same time if you are addicted to smoking.

The above lists of diseases that can encounter you if you smoke are really depressing and if you come across to read this, you would try to leave the habit of smoking because it is just destroying your health. Just for your taste satisfaction, you are destroying your body and life which is really a foolish act.

The women smokers risk the life of their infant children or if they are pregnant. The baby they are carrying can be miscarriage if they do not stop smoking in pregnancy or at the delivery time, they can give birth to under weighted, dead or abnormal child.  

Just keep in mind that with every inhale of a cigarette, you are losing eleven minutes of your precious life. So quit smoking and live a life full of happiness and joy.

See list of stop smoking products and lung detoxication methods, all natural and alternative medicine can be usefull to quit smoking.

Also electronic cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapy can be your first step to break smoking habit!