Tobacco is an agriculture product and it is taken from the Nicotiana plants' leaves. It can be used, consumed in the form of nicotine tartrate. It is used as organic pesticide, in some medicines which are used. There are many forms of consumption of this tobacco such as chewing, smoking, snuffing, snus, dipping tobacco. Generally, it is smoked.
Short-term effects:
Immediately the body responds to the chemical nicotine in the smoke when a person smokes a cigarette. Blood pressure, heart rate, and flow of blood from the heart are increased by nicotine by using cigarette. It also causes narrowing of arteries. The amount of oxygen that the blood can carry is reduced by carbon monoxide. An imbalance is created by effects of nicotine in the demand for oxygen by the cells and in the amount of oxygen the blood is able to supply.
Long term effects:
Lung diseases, larynx, coronary heart disease and stroke, esophagus, cancer of lungs, mouth and bladder are caused by smoking. Not only those, smoking can cause cancer of pancreas, cervix, kidneys etc. More than 40 chemicals have been identified by researchers in tobacco smoke which cause cancer in humans and animals. Smoking harmful effects do not end with the smoker.
Many adverse on their off springs outcomes like babies with low birth weight, and increased risk of infant death and with a variety of infant health disorders, if women use tobacco at the time of pregnancy. The environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) effects the health of nonsmokers adversely. It was estimated that 3,000 non smoking Americans died of lung cancer and 3,00,000 children are suffering from lower respiratory-tract infections in each year because of ETS exposure.
Short-term effects:
Immediately the body responds to the chemical nicotine in the smoke when a person smokes a cigarette. Blood pressure, heart rate, and flow of blood from the heart are increased by nicotine by using cigarette. It also causes narrowing of arteries. The amount of oxygen that the blood can carry is reduced by carbon monoxide. An imbalance is created by effects of nicotine in the demand for oxygen by the cells and in the amount of oxygen the blood is able to supply.
Long term effects:
Lung diseases, larynx, coronary heart disease and stroke, esophagus, cancer of lungs, mouth and bladder are caused by smoking. Not only those, smoking can cause cancer of pancreas, cervix, kidneys etc. More than 40 chemicals have been identified by researchers in tobacco smoke which cause cancer in humans and animals. Smoking harmful effects do not end with the smoker.
Many adverse on their off springs outcomes like babies with low birth weight, and increased risk of infant death and with a variety of infant health disorders, if women use tobacco at the time of pregnancy. The environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) effects the health of nonsmokers adversely. It was estimated that 3,000 non smoking Americans died of lung cancer and 3,00,000 children are suffering from lower respiratory-tract infections in each year because of ETS exposure.
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