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Warning: “Smoking is injurious to health”
There is a dictum that “everything has its harm and benefits”, but does smoking has any beneficial effect? Yes, it has. Those are too insignificant in comparison to the injury it causes to our body.
Its easy to enumerate them .There are so few of them. They are:
1. Smoking decreases appetite(but no evidence of benefits to overweight ones)
2. Risk of ulcerative colitis is reduced in smokers.
3. It interferes with the development of Kaposi’s sarcoma. ( the skin cancer known to be associated with AIDS )
4. Some studies conclude that smoking plays a certain protective role in the occurrence of sarcoidosis (a disease due to inflammation that can affect any organ but is commonly known to be associated with granulamatous lesion in lungs), although smoking has no effect on the extent, course and outcome of the disease.
Now, take a look at the harmful effects –
1. It is the major cause of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer.(In fact, the best management for mild to moderate chronic bronchitis is to stop smoking)
2. It is also linked to atherosclerosis and its major complication, myocardial infarction.
3. Numerous other diseases like oral cancer, cancer of larynx, oesophagial cancer, peptic ulcer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer…….
What’s next?
The next step is to do some research and find out how to quit smoking?

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