Impact of Smoking on the Body

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Smoking impacts our body in many ways. It basically affects every single system in our body, from the respiratory to the musculoskeletal system. The only different is how it affect that individual person, because it cause more serious problems for one person than another. It affect male and female the same and differently too. I going to shine some light on how it will affect you and your love ones.

Smoking can affect us all by cause some problems. Firstly, it can cause mood swings and make you feel as if you can act normal with a daily dose of nicotine in your system. Reduces lung function and breathlessness due to swelling and narrowing of the lung airways and excess mucus in the lung passages. Damage to the lining of the arteries, which is thought to be a contributing factor to atherosclerosis(the build-up of fatty deposits on the artery walls). The person is more prone to infections such as pneumonia and influenza. Irritation and inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Also in the long term it can cause cancer, lung diseases, osteoporosis and hip fracture.

The specific effects of smoking on the male body include:
lower sperm count.
Higher percentage of deformed sperm.
Reduced sperm mobility.
Changed levels of male sex hormones
impotence, which may be due to effects of smoking on blood flow and damage to the blood vessels of the penis.

The specific effects of smoking on the female body include:
Reduced fertility.
Menstrual cycle irregularities or absence of menstruation
Menopause reached one or two years earlier
Increased risk of cancer of the cervix
Greatly increased risk of stroke and heart attack if the smoker is aged over 35years and taking the oral contraceptive pill.

Therefore smoking can impact your body in many ways. It can cause serious problems no matter who you are, or how cool you think it is to smoke. Both in the short term and in the long term on both male and female, but it can affect there bodies in different ways.