Smoking and Heart Disease

Abstract

Risk factors, such as tobacco, are often cited in scientific literature, as some of the main determinants related to onset of chronic diseases, which constitute a group disease of the most striking in terms of lost years of life by premature death and disabilities. The scientific literature also indicates strong evidence that tobacco is the causal factor of nearly 60 different diseases, especially the diseases related to cardiovascular, among others. The paper in this regards works on a strong hypothesis subjecting that “there is an obvious relationship between smoking and heart disease that proves cigarette use causes major health problems”. In addition, the paper also provides with strong literature that describes various types of diseases and forms of cancer that are directly linked with regular smoking attributes. Moreover, the facts show that increasing trend in smoking are the major causes of deaths around the world due to either coronary disorders, or cancer relating to lungs, throat, liver cancers, as the harmful components of tobacco smoke contribute to the development of powerful risk factors such as hypertension, disturbances in the transport of cholesterol in blood vessel walls, adding to the deposition of cholesterol in them. The result is a most dangerous to the health of the heart and blood vessels range of risk factors, the so-called high total risk.

Smoking and Heart Disease

Introduction

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in both sexes in and the basic etiological factor is the atherosclerotic lesion as currently, the main cause of death in civilized countries are cardiovascular diseases including heart attacks, strokes , angina, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and aneurysms of about 60 kinds of diseases (Tomasek, 2013). The immense increase in such diseases is mainly due to the environmental and social factors that influence the human body. However, some of the alleged causes of the diseases a person is powerless to change, but there are others that each of us can control.

There is an obvious relationship between smoking and heart disease that proves cigarette use causes major health problems. In this regards, we often hear a popular warning that smoking is injurious to health and we continuously ignore it. However, this is often the reason that is leading to the development or exacerbation of various diseases, whether cigarettes, pipes, or water pipe, all forms of smoking are equally harmful.

Tobacco contains nicotine, which when smoked into the blood, and with the blood flow in the human brain, there is a feeling of satisfaction and euphoria, while at the same time opens the door for addiction. Each cigarette contains about 1 mg of nicotine and, if a smoker smokes 20-30 cigarettes a day, the amount thereof can be disastrous for the body (Sharpe, 2002).

Smoking increases the heart rate, which is one of the main causes of high blood pressure. Some carcinogens such as carbon monoxide contained in cigarette to form carboxyhemoglobin, which reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen (Mendez, 2011). Narrowing of the arteries, clogging of blood vessels and ...