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2. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Circumstances, mechanisms, and factors of tobacco consumption on human health "Health effects of smoking" and "Dangers of smoking" redirect here. For cannabis, see Effects of cannabis. For smoking crack cocaine, see Crack cocaine § Health issues. "Smoking and health" redirects here. For ...

3. Smoking cessation - Wikipedia

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   Many of tobacco's detrimental health effects can be reduced or largely removed through smoking cessation. The health benefits over time of stopping smoking include: [213] Within 20 minutes after quitting, blood pressure and heart rate decrease; Within a few days, carbon monoxide levels in the blood decrease to normal

4. Smoker's macrophages - Wikipedia

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   Cigarettes are known to cause many lung diseases including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer. Smoker's macrophages are alveolar macrophages whose characteristics, including appearance, cellularity, phenotypes, immune response, and other functions, have been affected upon the exposure to cigarettes. [1]

5. Tobacco harm reduction - Wikipedia

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   The consumption of tobacco products and its harmful effects affect both smokers and non-smokers, [9] and is a major risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of deaths in the world, including respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, periodontal diseases, teeth decay and loss, over 20 different types or subtypes of cancers, strokes, several debilitating ...

6. Smokeless tobacco - Wikipedia

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   Using smokeless tobacco can cause various harmful effects such as dental disease, oral cancer, oesophagus cancer, and pancreas cancer, coronary heart disease, as well as negative reproductive effects including stillbirth, premature birth and low birth weight. [5] [7] Smokeless tobacco poses a lower health risk than traditional combusted ...

7. Women and smoking - Wikipedia

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   For many women the effects of smoking on the heart's health become obvious later on in life. Among current female smokers, "the chance of dying from heart disease or lung cancer exceeds the chance of dying from breast cancer from 40 on (and does so by at least a factor of 5 after age 55)."

8. For young users, tobacco packets like Zyn are a nicotine ...

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   More research is needed on the effects in younger people, but adult use of nicotine carries a cardiovascular risk, raises the risk of cancer and can cause bad breath, tooth loss and gum disease ...

9. Tobacco smoking - Wikipedia

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   Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and a global public health concern. [86] There are 1.3 billion tobacco users in the world, as per latest data from WHO. [17] One person dies every six seconds from a tobacco related disease. [87] Common adverse effects of tobacco smoking. The more common effects are in bold face. [88]