By: Brett Nelson | 2012-04-09 | Smoking Since the 1990s, the world has begun to understand that tobacco is an evil thing. One of the main negative effects of tobacco use is emphysema. Emphysema is a disease of the lung, which slowly damages the air sacs and tissue lining, ultimately making it impossible to get air and blood to come together, keeping your body functioning. While emphysema isn’t curable, early detections of the disease read more
By: Francis Murphy | 2010-03-30 | Smoking Smoking is one of the major causes of lung cancer or primary carcinoma of the lung, the technical name of lung cancer. Not only this but smoking can even lead to other types of carcinomas including that of bladder, pancreas or kidney. read more
By: Isabell Isai | 2012-05-06 | Food & Beverage Smokers every day read on cigarettes packs that smoking causes lung cancer, and smokers die early. Frankly speaking, none of them wants to die, but few have enough will or desire to quit smoking. read more
By: Eric Giguere | 2011-06-03 | Health & Fitness On the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day that took place on May 31, let’s have a look at some of the most unique anti-smoking ads around the world through some photos as following: read more
By: Aakash Shah | 2009-08-02 | Smoking At least half of the world seems to enjoy the pleasures of smoking. However, the other half seems to be really up against it. From anti smoking laws to zero cigarette campaigns… this half of the world seems to have taken really serious steps in its battle against the fumes. The most effective tools that they employed are the slogans. read more
By: kathythomas12 | 2011-01-02 | Smoking I am sorry to say I cannot give enough reasons to support smoking but I can give a myriad of reasons why it is important to quit smoking. read more
By: Bev Langford | 2010-03-30 | Diseases and Conditions What is Emphysema? It is a lung disease that is characterized by shortness of breath. The person with emphysema has to breathe in a more exaggerated way to get sufficient amounts of oxygen and appears to be gasping for air when completing simple tasks like walking a short distance. Some sufferers explain that can feel like they are being suffocated and the only way to get rid these anxious feelings is to stay calm and not panic. read more
By: Dr Izharul Hasan | 2010-10-04 | Diseases and Conditions Emphysema is denned by its pathology and is characterizedby the destruction of respiratory tissue and permanentenlargement of the unit of the lung distal to the terminalbronchiole (the acinus). The injury to alveolar septa iscaused by proteolysis. Lung tissue is normally protectedby a shield of proteinase inhibitors, derived fromthe blood but also synthesized locally. read more
By: Marjorie Paulson | 2010-04-02 | Smoking There are four main health problems caused by smoking. The first health problem caused by smoking is lung disease. Did you know that non-smokers rarely get lung cancer and emphysema? Male smokers are 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer than male non-smokers! Lung cancer and emphysema are terrible ways to die. read more
By: William McKenna | 2011-01-07 | Health & Fitness Smoking can lead to several respiratory problems such as emphysema, chronic sinusitis, chronic bronchitis, as well as COPD and Lung Cancer. Stopping smoking greatly reduces your risk of these issues. read more
By: Trevor Gardner | 2010-03-31 | Smoking It is well known and well documented that smoking is a major cause of Lung Cancer. Smoking can also cause chronic types of the disease, plus cancer of the bladder, pancreas and the kidney. read more
By: | 2010-04-14 | Smoking Further evidence that, from a health standpoint, it is never too late to quit cigarette smoking was presented by a New Jersey pathologist who found that in former smokers, the cells that line the bronchial tubes - where smoking-caused lung cancers arise - recover from smoking-inflicted damage. The pathologist, Dr. Oscar Auerbach of the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, said that "persons who have smoked cigarettes for many years some times express the opinion that the harm has already been done and that they might as well continue smoking. read more
By: Donald Prathen | 2011-11-13 | Smoking Emphysema is a lung disease that involves the slow but steady destruction of lungs over time. Long term smoking causes emphysema where there is so much mucus production (chronic bronchitis) and lung tissue death that breathing becomes very difficult. One can still live a long like with emphysema but dead lung tissue cannot be brought back to life. read more
By: profitbysearch | 2011-09-30 | Smoking Smoking has always been referred to as a bad habit although every possible object on the earth has its own pros and cons. read more
By: susan fernandes | 2011-11-18 | Smoking Smoking is BAD! Is there still a living soul that doesn't know and understand this? There can't be. The media won't let such a thing happen. Just take a gander at all the anti-smoking commercials aired daily. If they don't get the point across, nothing will. As we all know, smoking leads to lung cancer. It's not exclusively for those with poor genetics or smokers over the age of 65. It can apply t read more