Do You Really Need To Smoke?
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What are the health risks of smoking?
Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK.
Every year around 78,000 people in the UK?die?from smoking, with much more?living with debilitating?smoking-related illnesses.
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.
You can become ill:
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:
Smoking damages your heart and your blood circulation, increasing?your risk of developing conditions such as:
Smoking also damages your lungs, leading to conditions such as:
Smoking can also worsen or prolong the symptoms of respiratory conditions such as?asthma, or?respiratory tract infections?such as the?common cold.
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Health risks of passive smoking
Secondhand smoke 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.
A child who's exposed to passive?smoke is at increased risk of developing?chest infections,?meningitis,?a?persistent?cough?and, if they have?asthma, their symptoms will get worse.
Read more about?passive smoking.
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:
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