The harmful effects on the body, caused by the consumption of snuff products are important on many tissues, organs and systems, causing major health diseases and losses. Thus, it is estimated that snuff products are primarily responsible each year for hundreds of thousands of deaths and chronic disease in millions of people. The dead because of smoking far outweigh the deaths occurring from diseases such as AIDS or TB, by consuming any other drugs, road accidents, suicides and murders.
Thus, the main consequences of smoking are the development of:
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: With its most important, chronic bronchitis and emphysema, lung disease are almost constant occurrence in smokers.
Cardiovascular disease: atherosclerosis is stronger in smokers, and its manifestations such as myocardial infarction, peripheral arterial disease or vascular-cerebral accidents are much more common in smokers.
Lung cancer and other cancers caused or influenced by smoking, such as cancer of the lip, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, cervix, kidney and bladder.
In women who smoke during pregnancy, their children presented with higher incidence prematurity, low birth weight, stillbirth, sudden infant death and even infertility in adulthood.
In postmenopausal women, osteoporosis tends to be greatest among those who smoke, manifesting as an increased risk of hip fracture.
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