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  2. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Inhalation of tobacco smoke causes several immediate responses within the heart and blood vessels. Within one minute the heart rate begins to rise, increasing by as much as 30 percent during the first 10 minutes of smoking. Carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke exerts negative effects by reducing the blood's ability to carry oxygen. [89]

  3. Smoking - Wikipedia

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    Smoking has negative health effects, because smoke inhalation inherently poses challenges to various physiologic processes such as respiration. Smoking tobacco is among the leading causes of many diseases such as lung cancer, heart attack, COPD, erectile dysfunction, and birth defects. [1]

  4. 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]

  5. Nicotine dependence - Wikipedia

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    [3] [10] Nicotine dependence is a serious public health problem because it leads to continued tobacco use and the associated negative health effects. Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide, causing more than 8 million deaths per year and killing half of its users who do not quit.

  6. Smoking and Health - Wikipedia

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    The report's conclusions were almost entirely focused on the negative health effects of cigarette smoking. It found: cigarette smokers had a seventy percent increase in age-corrected mortality rate. cigarette smoke was the primary cause of chronic bronchitis. a correlation between smoking, emphysema, and heart disease.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Cigarette - Wikipedia

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    An electronic cigarette (vape) A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption.

  9. Nicotine - Wikipedia

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    Nicotine has been used as an insecticide since at least 1690, in the form of tobacco extracts [19] [51] [52] (although other components of tobacco also seem to have pesticide effects). [53] Nicotine pesticides have not been commercially available in the US since 2014, [ 54 ] homemade pesticides are banned on organic crops, [ 55 ] and caution is ...