Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the world
Smoking increases your risk of developing more than 50 serious health conditions.
Some may be fatal, and others can cause irreversible long-term damage to your health.
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You Can Become Ill:
- if you smoke yourself
- if people around you smoke (passive smoking)
Smoking health risks
Smoking causes around 7 out of every 10 cases of lung cancer(70%).
It also causes cancer in many other parts of the body, including the:
- mouth
- throat
- voice box (larynx)
- bladder
- bowel
- cervix
- kidney
- liver
- stomach
- pancreas
Health risks of passive smoking
This type of smoking comes from the tip of a lit cigarette and the smoke that the smoker breathes out.
Breathing in secondhand smoke, also known as passive smoking, increases your risk of getting the same health conditions as smokers.
For example, if you have never smoked but you have a spouse who smokes, your risk of developing lung cancer increases by about a quarter.
Babies and children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoke
Health risks of smoking during pregnancy
If you smoke when you’re pregnant, you put your unborn baby’s health at risk, as well as your own.
Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of complications such as:
- Miscarriage
- still birth
- a low birth weight baby
- premature birth
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