If you are a smoker, you are at an increased health risk
Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK, around 114,000 people die from smoking related illnesses.
Smoking increases the risk of at least 50 medical conditions including dementia and digestive problems. Some conditions may be fatal, and others can cause irreversible, chronic damage to your health.
Some conditions that can be caused by smoking include: smoker's cough, cancers of the lung, mouth, throat, larynx, oesophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas and stomach, coronary heart disease, impotence, stroke, and chronic bronchitis and emphysema (lung conditions). |
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