Tobacco intake: its effect to our lungs and body system

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Every organ in the body is designed to perform a specific function. Most times we move around to do our daily activities without being cognizant on the work they perform. Well, living a healthy life is everything anyone can ever pray for.

Today, I can assure you that most of us don't really know the implications of the things we put in our body. The kind of food we eat, the drinks we take, the smoke and many of them can actually pose a serious treat to our well being.

Looking at all this, I will be discussing today's topic on the issues or complications associated with tobacco intake and it's damages to our lungs.

Well I may say that people who don't smoke cannot be able to explain what a chronic smoker may be passing through.
Smoking as we all know Is not good for our health. A lot of things could happen to our body due to the effect of cigarettes.

Do you know that each puff of cigarettes contains 7000 mixed chemicals that are very dangerous to our health.

When you take cigarettes, the smoke moves straight to the lungs, displacing the oxygen in your lungs, therefore the blood that is being carried to the entire body contains this chemical which prevents enough oxygen supply to the body organs.

Tobacco also contains a chemical called acrolein which is capable of causing irreversible lung damage if inhaled. Aside this, it also contains bronchodilator that dilates the lungs and enable more of the chemicals to sink down into the lungs therefore causing more damages to the lungs.

One most important harmful effect of tobacco intake is it's ability to displace oxygen by binding with the hemoglobin.

Hemoglobin is a combination of a protein called globin and non protein which is the haem. The substance helps to transport oxygen from one point to another through its combination with the blood. Hemoglobin is composed of four subunits which are two beta and two alpha subunits. It's main function in the blood is to help in the transportation of oxygen and also giving blood it's reddish colour.

Hemoglobin has the ability to bind with oxygen and carbon monoxide. But the affinity between hemoglobin and carbon monoxide binding is about 200 to 300 times more greater than the one of oxygen. Once this happens the oxygen starts to unbind therefore making the binding site more accessible for carbon monoxide to fit in. Remember carbon monoxide is a substance that is being released from the cigarettes into your lungs.

This effect depletes the level of oxygen that are being transported into the body therefore leading to tissue hypoxia. This results to headache, malaise, altered mental status, shortness of breath and seizures.

The consequences that might probably come out as a result of tobacco intake is detrimental to our health and can lead to a very disastrous health condition and so on. Cancer can also emanate from any parts of the body like bladder,blood,cervix,colon, esophagus,kidney, larynx and liver.

Looking at it generally you can be able to say that intake of tobacco can affect virtually all the entire body system and lead to to early grave.

how to protect your lungs from tobacco

The only way you can protect your lungs and your body system from being harmed from tobacco intake is by preventing yourself from taking it and try stoping it If you are already an addict.

¶Stoping the intake of tobacco can help reduce the possibility of getting cancer of the larynx.

¶Lung cancer will automatically drop down to 50 percent 10 years once you stop the intake of tobacco.

¶mouth and throat cancer also drop by 50 percent after five years of quitting.

in conclusion

Intake of tobacco or any form of smoke is not a good thing if I may say. It makes your health condition more vulnerable to different kind of diseases which at long run might result to a very serious one.

The earlier we stop taking it the better for our lungs and body system.

References
Keep Your Air Clear: How Tobacco Can Harm Your Lungs
Chemicals in Cigarettes: From Plant to Product to Puff
acrolein
How a Cigarette Is Engineered
Physiology, Oxygen Transport And Carbon Dioxide Dissociation Curve


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My father is a smoker, I would say he is a cigarette addict and although he is not directly a tobacco smoker, the effect smoking has had on his health became evident when he got Covid-19 as his clinical picture worsened. Thank you @hillaryisidore for this educational post.

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Today, I can assure you that most of us don't really know the implications of the things we put in our body. The kind of food we eat, the drinks we take, the smoke and many of them can actually pose a serious treat to our well being.

I totally agree with you. Most do not care about what they do with their body, even if they are aware of potential future problems.

As I already mentioned it several time, the pleasure of the moment has more importance than health on the long term. I guess that this is part of the human nature.

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Yea, people don't really understand the implications of what they do, though some of them are aware of the risk but cannot be able to quit from the habit.

I always appreciate your coming around sir.

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The pleasure is always for me :)

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With the description ‘smokers are liable to die young’ written on tobacco packs, one would think people would be warned about the effects of inhaling this hazardous substance but people keep taking it regularly regardless of the bad sides attached to it.

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