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Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body, causing many diseases and reducing health in general. While smoking cigarette, your body takes in 4000 chemicals, including 43 known carcinogens. These chemicals affect every organ in your body, especially your heart, lungs, brain, liver, kidneys and bladder. Cigarette smoke increases the production of free radicals while also depleting the body of antioxidants, hitting the immune system with a one-two punch.

Specific effects of tobacco smoking on the male body

Smoking affects of men’s body in follow ways:

• Lower sperm count
• Higher percentage of deformed sperm
• Reduced sperm mobility
• Changed levels of male sex hormones
• Impotence, which may be due to the effects of smoking on blood flow and damage to the blood vessels of the penis.

Specific effects of tobacco smoking on the female body

• Reduced fertility
• Menstrual cycle irregularities or absence of menstruation
• Menopause reached one or two years earlier
• Increased risk of cancer of the cervix
• • Greatly increased risk of stroke and heart attack if the smoker is aged over 35 years and taking the oral contraceptive pill
• Worsen skin, hair and nail condition.

Respiratory Effects of Smoking

One of the most dangerous effects of smoking is the damage to the lungs and bronchial tubes. As a smoker inhales cigarette smoke it passes through his bronchial tubes. Chemicals and residue from the smoke latch onto the bronchial tubes and cause them to become inflamed. As a result, the smoker will safer from chronic cough. The lungs are affected as the smoke creates a buildup of mucus. Unlike healthy lungs, a smoker's lungs can appear dark and deflated. The most destructive effect of cigarettes smoking on the lungs is a diagnosis of lung cancer.

Effects of Smoking on the Brain

When nicotine enters the brain dopamine is released creating a pleasurable. The brain is the body’s center for mood and conscious thought. Among other things the brain also regulates the body’s processes such as breathing and unconscious body processes. When a person smokes it takes 10 seconds for it to affect the brain altering its chemistry and could potentially lead to having a stroke. Some researches have shown that smoking may also reduce memory and cognitive abilities.

Effects of smoking smoke on the circulatory system

Smoking raised blood pressure and heart rate; damage to the lining of the arteries, which is thought to be a contributing factor to atherosclerosis (the build-up of fatty deposits on the artery walls); stickier blood, which is more prone to clotting In result of smoking cigarettes less oxygen carried by the blood and blood flow to extremities like fingers and toes are reduced. Also it is very harmful effect of smoking is increased risk of stroke and heart attack due to blockages of the blood supply.

Effects of Smoking on the Eyes

Across the world cataracts are the leading cause of blindness. Statistic data reported that smokers are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop cataracts than that of non-smokers.

The health effects of smoking are serious, dead serious! the good news is that once you quit smoking your body begins to repair itself.

The body already starts to recover from the effects of smoking in the first twenty minutes after a cigarette.