EFFECTS OF SMOKING TO OUR HEALTH

       In Malaysia, about 70% of people are smokers. Among of smokers are an adults, teenagers even also to a children. Now, influence of smoking among a teenagers and children are mostly greater than to an adults. This is because of an influence from a friends at school make the rate of smokers in Malaysia increase year to year. There are many effects of smoking to our health.

        The effects of smoking to our health is smoking damages your blood vessels and increases your risk of heart disease and stroke. If you smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day, your risk of having a stroke can be up to six times that of a non-smoker. If you’re under 40 and a smoker, you’re five times more likely to have a heart attack than a non-smoker of the same age. Smoking also can blocked your blood vessel in your legs and feet. This can lead to a gangrene disease where the tissue in your body will die.

         Moreover, smoking will effect to our lungs problem. It’s hardly surprising that if you’re regularly breathing in smoke, your airways can become damaged, making it harder for you to get air in and out of your lungs. This will cause breathing difficulties, the main two of which are bronchitis and emphysema. Children of parents who smoke are more likely to have asthma or other breathing problems. So, you must alert that more you smoke, the greater the risks that you will get.

          After that, smoking also will affect to your sexual life both men's and woman's fertility. Effect to a men, it damages sperm and reduces how much of it is produced. For women who smoke will go through the menopause two years earlier than women who don’t smoke. Smoking reduces fertility in both men and women, meaning it’s likely to take longer for you to conceive. So, smoking also be risk to both of men's and women's fertility.

          Lastly, smoking also will affects your appearance. It also reduces your sense of taste and smell, and that smoky odour that clings to your hair and clothes is not very attractive either. Smoking can prematurely age your skin by between 10 and 20 years, and you’re more likely to have facial wrinkles at a younger age. The tar in cigarettes stains your fingers and teeth, so they become discoloured and yellow. If you smoke, you’re two to three times more likely to develop psoriasis than a non-smoker. Psoriasis is a skin condition that causes patches of inflamed skin. So, smoking also give a bad appearance to a smokers.

         In conclusion, the good news is that it’s never too late to stop smoking, and when you do, the risks to your health drop dramatically. Within a month of quitting, your appearance will improve. After one year, your risk of heart attack is cut in half compared with that of a smoker. And if you stay a non-smoker for 10 years, you will also reduce your risk of lung cancer by half compared with someone who smokes.